Aung San Suu Kyi receives the "Ambassador of Conscience" award

Amnesty International awarded its most prestigious honor, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, for 2009 to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, currently under house arrest and on trial in Myanmar.

U2's Bono announced the award during a break in the band's performance Monday night in Dublin, just prior to performing Walk On, their tribute to her heroic campaign for freedom and justice.

Suu Kyi – who has spent 13 of the last 20 years under house arrest – has remained a symbol of hope, courage and the undying defense of human rights, not only to the people of Myanmar but to people around the world.

As her trial draws to an end, the Nobel Laureate faces a possible sentence of 5 years in Myanmar's notorious Insein Prison, which some have referred to as the "darkest hell-hole in Burma." Amnesty and its supporters have stood by Aung San Suu Kyi for two decades, and pledge to stand by her for as long as it takes!

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