Burma frees thousands from jail
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Burma's military leaders release nearly 4,000 prisoners ruled to have been jailed using "irregular" means.
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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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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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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s military government has freed the country&#39;s second most prominent political prisoner, student democracy leader Min Ko Naing, an opposition party spokesman told AFP.
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Burma&#39;s military government appears to have stopped releasing thousands of prisoners it pledged to free less than a week ago. Relatives of hundreds of political prisoners say there have been no new releases since Saturday.
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Myanmar&#39;s military rulers will free 5,311 more prisoners, state media has reported, after the government said earlier this month thousands of others would also be released.
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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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YANGON, Myanmar -- One of Myanmar&#39;s most prominent political prisoners, Min Ko Naing, a student democracy leader, has been freed by the country&#39;s military government, a government source said Saturday.
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Myanmar's military government has freed all but one of 52 people detained for holding prayer vigils for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said on Thursday.
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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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[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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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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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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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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Almost 14,000 prisoners have been freed early in England and Wales to relieve overcrowding, government figures show.
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One of Myanmar&#39;s best known and longest-imprisoned political dissidents has been freed as part of a general release of almost 4,000 prisoners granted by the country&#39;s ruling junta, a family member confirmed Saturday.
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Burma&#39;s military junta has freed prominent political prisoners during a mass release of four thousand detainees. He is a high-profile aide to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest.