Myanmar junta frees more protesters
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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 ruling generals have freed their second most prominent political prisoner, Min Ko Naing, leader of student democracy protests in 1988, a source close to his family said on Saturday.
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Angry Buddhist monks in central Myanmar have released five of the 20 hostages they seized at their monastery on Thursday in a tense confrontation with the nation&#39;s military government, residents said.
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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&#039;s military rulers extended the house arrest of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, defying an international outcry demanding her freedom and dashing the hopes of her supporters.
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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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YANGON  - Myanmar said it would release a second batch of prisoners taking the total announced in a week to more than 9,000. The military regime said it would free 5,311 prisoners on top of the 3,937
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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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YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar&#39;s military government said Thursday that it will release 5,311 prisoners in addition to almost 4,000 whose planned release was announced last week.
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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'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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Myanmar's ruling generals have freed  their second most prominent political prisoner, Min Ko Naing,  leader of student democracy protests in 1988, a source close to  his family said on Saturday.
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Buddhist monks were allowed to march past police barricades to the home of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as street protests intensified against the ruling military junta.
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YANGON, Myanmar  -- Myanmar announced Saturday that it was lifting a curfew and ending a ban on assembly imposed after a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the latest sign that the government believes it has extinguished the largest demonstrations in decades.
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Myanmar&#39;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 on Saturday.
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Burma&#39;s military government has announced the release of five-thousand detainees, in a third mass release in less than a month.
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YANGON - Myanmar&#39;s junta will release an additional 5,070 prisoners, bringing the total number of prisoners to be released to 14,318, state media reported Saturday.