U.N. envoy visits detained Suu Kyi
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Suu Kyi returned home after three months in military detention.
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(CNN) -- A U.N. envoy has visited the home of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, where she is under house arrest, to check on her health, sources told CNN.
Suu Kyi underwent surgery for a gynecological condition at a Yangon hospital and was discharged last week.
U.N. envoy Razali Ismail arrived in the South Asian country Tuesday on a three-day mission to secure Suu Kyi's release from house arrest.
He arrived at Suu Kyi's lakeside residence in Yangon on Wednesday after meeting Myanmar's prime minister, General Khin Nyunt.
Ismail is the first outsider to visit Suu Kyi since she was released from the hospital.
Her doctor, Dr. Tin Myo Win, said Myanmar authorities had told him Suu Kyi was 100 percent healthy.
Suu Kyi, 58, whose pro-democracy efforts in her country earned her the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, was detained on May 30. She had been held for months in an undisclosed location after a clash between her supporters and a pro-government group.
Myanmar's military government has said previously that Suu Kyi will be freed, but it has refused to specify when.
Her plight sparked international outrage and Western sanctions against the ruling regime, especially after U.S. reports last month that Suu Kyi was on a hunger strike to protest against her detention.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won a sweeping victory in a general election in 1990, but Myanmar's military rulers refused to recognize the vote and held onto power.
-- CNN Correspondent Tom Mintier in Bangkok contributed to this report
