Burmese junta frees 5,070 inmates
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Burma's ruling junta says it is releasing 5,070 prisoners who were arrested "inappropriately".
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Myanmar's military government has freed all but one of 52 people detained for holding prayer vigils for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said on Thursday.
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RANGOON, Burma - The military government released 50 members of Burma's pro-democracy party on the same day it met with their leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in a response to international pressure over the crushing of peaceful demonstrations, a party spokesman said yesterday.
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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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YANGON, Myanmar -- One of Myanmar&#39;s most prominent political prisoners, Min Ko Naing, a student democracy leader, has been freed by the country&#39;s military government, a government source said Saturday.
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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 - Myanmar&#39;s military government said Thursday that it will release 5,311 prisoners in addition to almost 4,000 whose planned release was announced last week.
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Burma&#39;s military government has announced the release of five-thousand detainees, in a third mass release in less than a month.
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YANGON : At least two Myanmar dissidents were among thousands of prisoners being freed after the military government announced it had begun releasing more than 5,000 detainees in a third mass release in less than a month, relatives and officials said.
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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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Myanmar's military government said it was releasing 5,588 prisoners ahead of the 57th anniversary of independence on January 4, the fourth mass release in six weeks.
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Myanmar&#39;s ruling military junta announced Saturday that more than 5,000 prisoners have had their sentences suspended and will be freed from various prisons around the
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Yangon, Nov. 20: 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 said today.
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BURMA RANGOON -- Burma will free 5,000 prisoners, the military government said yesterday, just a week after it released nearly 4,000 others, including some held for political reasons. There was no indication that detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi would be freed. The releases coincided with the opening of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit yesterday in Laos, ...
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Myanmar's military government announced it had begun releasing thousands of prisoners who may have been wrongly imprisoned by a recently disbanded military intelligence unit.
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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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Burma's military junta bans groups of more than five people gathering.