Burma Says It Will Free Over 5,000 More Prisoners
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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&#39;s closest aide would also be freed before long.
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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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Myanmar announced it would release another 5,000 prisoners and a senior official said on Thursday a top dissident who was democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will also be free before long.
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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's junta held nearly 1,200  political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led  street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s  independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (19/11/04) - The Military government of Myanmar (also known as Burma) is reportedly releasing some 3â937 prisoners âinappropriately jailedâ by the dissolved National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) led by the ousted prime minister
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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.
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BANGKOK - As protesters filled the streets of Burma's cities in greater numbers than ever yesterday, swelling the crowds in the country's largest city to an estimated 100,000, the government issued its first warning that it might take action against protesting Buddhist monks.
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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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More than 1,000 prisoners are to be freed later ahead of schedule as part of a move to ease prison overcrowding.
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YANGON  - The 9,248 Myanmar jail inmates promised freedom under the military regime&#39;s mass release programme will soon be out but with only 40 dissidents among them, according to the opposition and a senior prison official.
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YANGON Hundreds of inmates were released from Myanmar&#39;s main prison Friday, witnesses said, a day after the military regime announced that it was expanding its prisoner release program to more than 9,000 people.
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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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Militant Buddhist monks in Myanmar who had taken about 20 officials hostage in a monastery freed them after intervention by a senior abbot, said a senior monk.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta is to release a further 5,070 prisoners, state media announced on Saturday, bringing the total number of prisoners released in recent weeks to more than 14,000.
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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 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.