Myanmar Frees Prominent Political Prisoners
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Myanmar&#39;s junta freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party on Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately
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19 November 2004 - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed an announcement by the Myanmar Government that it has begun releasing nearly 4,000 prisoners and called for freeing all others detained for their political beliefs.
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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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YANGON: The release of thousands of prisoners including top dissidents in military-run Myanmar âlends dignity to the nationâ, the main opposition party said on Saturday as it praised those freed for their struggle for democracy.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Myanmar's secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, the long-powerful Gen. Khin Nyunt, and placed him under house arrest on corruption charges, a government spokesman in neighboring Thailand said Tuesday...
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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.
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Win Tin, one of Myanmar's best-known journalists and a key opposition figure, was released from prison with several other members of the pro-democracy movement, a party source has told AFP.
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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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At least two Burmese dissidents are among thousands of prisoners being freed by the military government in a third mass release in less than a month.
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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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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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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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Burma&#39;s military junta has freed a top dissident - second only to Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi - as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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RANGOON, Burma, Nov. 25 -- Burma announced Thursday that it would release more than 5,000 prisoners, and a senior official said a top dissident who was democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's closest aide would also be freed before long.
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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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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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Negotiators from Myanmar&#39;s largest armed rebel group have been freed after they were detained during a political shakeup in Yangon, the rebel group said today.