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 junta has freed an 82-year-old member of the opposition National League for Democracy who was sentenced to five years in jail for joining protests against the regime last month.
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Myanmar's military junta on Saturday lifted a curfew imposed in the country's main city Yangon last month after a crackdown on mass protests.
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Yangon - Three truckloads of inmates rolled out of Myanmar&#39;s main jail on Friday, a day after the military regime announced it was expanding its prisoner release programme to more than 9 000 people, a correspondent saw.
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Only a few hundred of 4,000 prisoners, including political dissidents, that Myanmar has vowed to free have been released and it could take at least a week for them all to leave jail, the opposition said.
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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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Burma's military regime lifts the curfew that was imposed on Rangoon at the height of protests led by monks.
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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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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 junta freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately
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Burma's military junta acknowledged Wednesday that it detained nearly 3,000 people during a crackdown on recent pro-democracy protests, with hundreds still remaining in custody
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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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Togo's government frees some 500 prisoners, after they were pardoned by President Eyadema.
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YANGON: All 9,248 Myanmar prison inmates promised freedom under the military government&#39;s mass release programme have been let out of jail, said a prison department source on Saturday.
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[World News]: Yangon, Nov. 25 : Burma&#39;s military junta has told the British Television that high-profile political prisoner Win Tin is due to be freed from prison.
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YANGON, MYANMAR - The military government of Myanmar promised Thursday that it will release another 5,000 prisoners, including some people who have been jailed for political activity.
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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.