Authorities in Burma removed barbed wire barriers and reduced security around the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, an official from her party said.

Witnesses near the lakeside compound where the Nobel peace prize winner has been locked away for most of the past 19 years said that barricades and checkpoints preventing people from going near her house had been removed.

The gate to her compound remained closed, witnesses said.

Asian and European leaders meeting in China on Saturday urged Myanmar’s junta to release detained opposition members, while American officials also put out a fresh plea for an end to Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest last week.