Burma political prisoners freed
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Several members of Burma's opposition NLD are freed from jail in a move linked to a  power struggle in the military.
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Burma's military regime said today it had freed the country's leading comedian and a revered actor and his wife who were arrested in mass detentions immediately after the outbreak of pro-democracy protests sparked a bloody crackdown.
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Burmaâs military junta released at least 19 political prisoners today, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.
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Myanmar's ruling generals have freed  their second most prominent political prisoner, Min Ko Naing,  leader of student democracy protests in 1988, a source close to  his family said on Saturday.
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RANGOON, Burma -- Burma's military junta released at least 19 political prisoners yesterday, including members of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party who were among thousands of inmates whose detentions were ruled improper. Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, remained under house arrest.
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Myanmar's ruling generals have freed  their second most prominent political prisoner, Min Ko Naing,  leader of the 1988 student democracy protests, a source close  to his family said Saturday.
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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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Military-ruled Myanmar has released at least 11 dissidents among more than 5,000 prisoners freed in its latest mass release, opposition parties and officials said.
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Myanmar&#39;s military government says it has released thousands of people from jail as promised, but there appeared few political prisoners among those emerging from Yangon&#39;s notorious Insein prison.
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Most of the 33 Iranian women activists arrested earlier in the week in Tehran have been freed from jail.
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Yangoon (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Myanmarâs military junta freed about 500 of the nearly 4,000 prisoners it promised to release, this according to eyewitness accounts.
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Myanmar's junta freed at least two dozen  members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's political party on  Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained  "inappropriately" by the intelligence machine purged last  month.
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RANGOON - At least two dissidents are among thousands of prisoners being freed by the Myanmar military government in a third mass release in less than a month.
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Two senior pro-democracy leaders jailed  in 1995 for distributing anti-government pamphlets were freed  in military-ruled Myanmar on Sunday, part of the junta's latest  release of more than 5,000 prisoners.
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Burma&#39;s military government has announced it has begun freeing 5,070 more prisoners, taking the number earmarked for release since last month to more than 14,300.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Myanmar's junta freed at least  two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's  political party Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people  detained "inappropriately" by the intelligence machine purged  last month.
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Burma has completed its mass release of more than 9,000 jail inmates following a shake-up in the military-run regime. A prison source says that all 9,248 prisoners promised freedom have been released, although