Burma jails 4 democracy workers

September 24 (Reuters) - Four officials of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party have been jailed for seven years after a closed trial inside a Burma jail, their lawyer said on Friday.

The two men and two women, district-level officials of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), were charged with sending NLD statements to dissident groups on the Thai border, a party official said.

Lawyer Nyan Win, a member of the NLD legal advisory committee who represented the four, said they were found guilty on Thursday at a trial in Insein Jail under legislation on threats to national security.

"I will arrange an appeal for them as soon as possible," he said.

"The court made the decision based on the confession of my clients in interrogations by military intelligence without any concrete evidence to support the allegations against them," he said.

The two women, Than Than Htay and Yi Yi Win, were in poor health, he said.

He identified the two men as Tin Myint and San Ya.

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