Burma regime 'frees 70 detainees'
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The junta in Burma releases at least 70 people detained during recent protests, opposition party officials say.
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Burma&#39;s junta has freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately&quot;.
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Some 80 Afghans held as terror suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay have been released and flown back to Afghanistan, an Afghan court official said on Sunday.
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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, 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 Win Tin, a prominent journalist who is an aide to the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was reported to be among the 4,000 people freed Friday by the junta, which said they had been arrested &quot;inappropriately&quot; by the dismantled
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A dissident who led the 1988 student protests in Burma is freed, as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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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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Yangon: Myanmar&#39;s junta has freed the nation&#39;s number two political prisoner as part of a release of 4,000 inmates, as analysts questioned the gesture&#39;s potential impact on democratic reform in the military-ruled state.
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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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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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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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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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Burma&#39;s military dictators have freed a top dissident - second only to democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi - after 16 years in jail.
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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'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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The military leaders in Myanmar have decided to release about 4,000 prisoners the leaders admit were wrongly imprisoned. The media in the repressive state, formerly called