Yangon, Sep 4 (DPA) A Myanmar court has accepted the appeal of Aung San Suu Kyi against last month's court decision that put her under house detention for the next 18 months, her lawyers said Friday.

'The Yangon divisional court has accepted our case, and hearing of arguments will start on Sep 18,' said Nyan Win, one of Suu Kyi's lawyers.

The attorneys submitted the appeal Thursday on behalf of their client, who has spent 14 of the past 20 years under detention and is currently being detained at her Yangon family compound.

On Aug 11, a special court set up in Yangon's Insein Prison found Suu Kyi, 64, guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest and sentenced her to three years in prison with hard labour. The sentence was quickly commuted to 18 months under house detention by Myanmar's military supremo, Senior General Than Shwe.

Suu Kyi was found guilty of allowing US national John William Yettaw to swim to her lakeside home-cum-prison May 3, where he stayed uninvited until May 5, to warn her of an assassination attempt he said he had envisioned.

Suu Kyi's two household aides, Khin Khin Win and Win Ma Ma, were also found guilty of abetting Yettaw's visit and were sentenced to three years in jail, which was also commuted to 18 months under house arrest. Their cases have also been appealed by Suu Kyi's legal team.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner's lawyers has appealed the verdicts on the grounds that Suu Kyi was detained on charges of threatening national security based on the 1974 constitution, which has been replaced by the 2008 charter.