Two political prisoners among hundreds of inmates released in Myanmar
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Two prominent pro-democracy leaders were among hundreds of prisoners released from a Myanmar prison on Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country's ruling military junta.
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Militant Buddhist monks in Myanmar who had taken about 20 officials hostage in a monastery freed them after intervention by a senior abbot, said a senior monk.
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Burma&#39;s military rulers will free 5,311 more prisoners after the government said earlier this month thousands of others would also be released, according to state media reports.
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One of Myanmar&#39;s best known and longest-imprisoned political dissidents has been freed as part of a general release of almost 4,000 prisoners granted by the country&#39;s ruling junta, a family member confirmed Saturday.
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Myanmar's junta has freed 87 more people arrested during last month's crackdown, including more than 50 members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), party spokesman Nyan Win said.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta released at least 19 political prisoners Friday as part of a group of nearly 4,000 prisoners it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.
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Myanmar, under pressure from the International Labor Organization (ILO) to end forced labor, has freed an activist lawyer jailed last year after exposing abuses, an official has said.
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BURMA&#39;s military dictators have given the dissident democracy movement a rare pleasant surprise by unexpectedly releasing from prison the man thought to be a potential successor to Aung San Suu Kyi as a democracy leader.
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Burma's ruling junta frees about 500 more prisoners, and says it will release veteran dissident Win Tin.
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Two prominent pro-democracy leaders were among hundreds of prisoners released from a Myanmar prison on Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country&#39;s ruling junta, the prisoners and family members said.
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Rangoon, Myanmar/Burma - Military officials have released almost 4,000 political prisoners, including several members of Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s National League for Democracy.
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YANGON  - The 9,248 Myanmar jail inmates promised freedom under the military regime&#39;s mass release programme will soon be out but with only 40 dissidents among them, according to the opposition and a senior prison official.
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Burma&#39;s military government appears to have resumed its promised release of prisoners after a delay of several days. Journalists in Rangoon Thursday said they saw inmates being freed from the country&#39;s largest jail, Insein prison.
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YANGON  - Myanmar has completed its mass release of more than 9,000 inmates, a prison department source said, following a shake-up in the military-run regime.
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Myanmar&#39;s military government has begun to release nearly 4,000 prisoners, including some political detainees, arrested &quot;inappropriately&quot; by the dissolved National Intelligence Bureau led by purged prime minister Khin Nyunt.
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Burma&#39;s military junta has freed prominent political prisoners during a mass release of four thousand detainees. He is a high-profile aide to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest.
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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s military government has freed the country&#39;s second most prominent political prisoner, student democracy leader Min Ko Naing, an opposition party spokesman told AFP.