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Pan of protesters holding banners and flags in support of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi2. Demonstrators holding pictures of Suu Kyi 3. Close-up of sign with picture of Suu Kyi 4. French actress-singer...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eParis, France\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan of protesters holding banners and flags in support of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi\u003cbr/\u003e2. Demonstrators holding pictures of Suu Kyi \u003cbr/\u003e3. Close-up of sign with picture of Suu Kyi \u003cbr/\u003e4. French actress-singer Jane Birkin addressing demonstrators through microphone\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close-up of badge of Suu Kyi on Jane Birkin \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Birkin, French actress-singer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"They've put Aung San Suu Kyi on trial today, we don't know how long it will last. Trumped up cases about a swimmer with a bible in his hand who's American but that just fell like bread from the sky for the military junta.\" \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of Birkin at protest\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mireille Boisson, Amnesty International:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We can't remain silent, I mean we are all human beings. If I don't protest for the right of another who's rights are violated who will protest for mine?\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close-up of sign quoting Suu Kyi as saying: (French) \"Use your liberty to promote ours\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of protester holding sign\u003cbr/\u003eRome, Italy \u003cbr/\u003e11. Pan demonstrators in front of the Embassy of the Union of Myanmar\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of protester holding banner and chanting: (Italian) \"Free Suu Kyi\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Policeman in front of embassy \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of protesters gathered outside embassy\u003cbr/\u003e15. Medium Myanmar flag \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Stefano Pedica, Vice President of EU politics at the Senate and member of \"Italy of Values\" political party: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We are doing it as 'Italy of Values' and we are doing it as left wingers. We are doing it to recognise a person who wants to fight for human rights in a country where human rights don't exist, and who, above all, is a Nobel prize winner. And that represents the maximum denial of freedom.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up banners reading: (English) \"Free Suu Kyi, Free Democracy\" and \"A national hostage an international shame\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close up demonstrator with megaphone and radio\u003cbr/\u003e19. Low angle shot of police and demonstrators in front of the embassy\u003cbr/\u003eTaipei, Taiwan \u003cbr/\u003e20. Tilt up from candles forming word (English) \"FREE\" to wide of banners\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close-up of poster showing photo of Suu Kyi \u003cbr/\u003e22. Woman lighting candles \u003cbr/\u003e23. Pan from posters to people gathering in front of candles \u003cbr/\u003e24. Close-up of woman and two children\u003cbr/\u003e25. People sitting on the ground \u003cbr/\u003e26. Pan right of candles forming word (English) \"FREE\"\u003cbr/\u003eProtests erupted in cities across the globe as Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial on Monday, sparking a storm of international appeals to Myanmar's government to free her and to restore democracy in the country.\u003cbr/\u003eSuu Kyi faces up to five years' imprisonment on charges that she violated conditions of her years-long detention by sheltering an American man who swam to her lakeside home earlier this month. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to her defence team, the court will be closed to the public and media - despite contrary requests by her legal team.\u003cbr/\u003eActivists have vowed to stage protests in Myanmar until she is freed, and planned pro-Suu Kyi demonstrations were underway on Monday in about 20 cities around the world, including Paris, Rome, London, Boston and San Francisco.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the French and Italian capitals, hundreds of people demonstrated in support of Suu Kyi near the respective Myanmar embassies on Monday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Paris protest was joined by Amnesty International activists and French actress-singer Jane Birkin, who called the trial against Suu Kyi \"trumped up\".\u003cbr/\u003eIn Rome, members of the Italy of Values party and the Italian Radicals peacefully gathered in front of the Myanmar Embassy gate waving banners calling for Suu Kyi's freedom.\u003cbr/\u003eSuu Kyi has already spend more than 13 of the last 19 years in detention.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Taipei, Taiwan, protesters staged a candlelight vigil organised by several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to call for her release.\u003cbr/\u003eTaiwan is not a member of ASEAN or the United Nations, but local NGOs occasionally highlight human right issues related to Myanmar and Tibet with activities held in Taipei.\u003cbr/\u003eAuthorities said the trial began in Yangon at the Insein prison at about 10:30 a.m. (0300 GMT).\u003cbr/\u003eSuu Kyi, two female party members who are her sole companions under house arrest, and Yettaw, the American man who swam to her lakeside home, are being tried together for violating the conditions of her restriction order, which bans any visitors without official permission.\u003cbr/\u003eYettaw is being tried separately for violations of immigration law and a statute covering swimming in the city's Inya Lake.\u003cbr/\u003eThe first day of the trial heard testimony from police Lieutenant Colonel Zaw Min Aung, the first of 22 scheduled prosecution witnesses, said Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party.\u003cbr/\u003eThe officer, who signed the official criminal complaint on the case, laid out the prosecution's basic case.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ambassadors of Britain, France, Germany and Italy as well as an Australian diplomat were barred from entering the prison, but the US consul was allowed into the prison compound since the intruder - US citizen, John William Yettaw - is also on trial.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Yangon, more than 100 Suu Kyi supporters were able to get through an outer perimeter of barricades around the notorious Insein prison, but not the inner one that was closely guarded by armed police and government supporters. One young protester was seen being taken away by police.\u003cbr/\u003eYettaw's family members have described him as well-intentioned and unaware of the problems he could cause by trying to talk with Suu Kyi, but her supporters have expressed anger at him for getting the Nobel Peace laureate into trouble. \u003cbr/\u003eSuu Kyi's lawyers have said the 53-year-old from Falcon, Missouri, was not invited to her residence and that she told him to leave.\u003cbr/\u003eSuu Kyi had been scheduled to be freed May 27 after six consecutive years of house arrest, but the ruling junta was widely expected to yet again extend her detention period. International lawyers say this would have been illegal under Myanmar's own laws.\u003cbr/\u003eThe latest charges are widely seen as a pretext for the government to keep Suu Kyi detained past elections it has scheduled for next year as the\u003cbr/\u003eculmination of a \"roadmap to democracy\" which has been criticised as a fig leaf for continued military control.\u003cbr/\u003eMyanmar has been ruled by its military since 1962. 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