Myanmar says thousands of prisoners freed
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Myanmar&#39;s military government says it has released thousands of people from jail as promised, but there appeared few political prisoners among those emerging from Yangon&#39;s notorious Insein prison.
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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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Tens of thousands of people joined  Buddhist monks on marches in Myanmar&#39;s former capital on Monday  in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since  they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.
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Myanmar&#39;s military government has begun to release nearly 4,000 prisoners, including some political detainees, arrested &quot;inappropriately&quot; by the dissolved National Intelligence Bureau led by purged prime minister Khin Nyunt.
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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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The junta in Burma releases at least 70 people detained during recent protests, opposition party officials say.
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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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Negotiators from Myanmar&#39;s largest armed rebel group have been freed after they were detained during a political shakeup in Yangon, the rebel group said today.
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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
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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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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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RANGOON, BURMA - Burma&#39;s military government has reportedly released a number of political prisoners as part of a wide-ranging amnesty for thousands of prisoners it said were improperly detained.
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Myanmar has arrested almost 100 dissidents since it promised a UN envoy there would be no more detentions, according to Amnesty International.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta released at least 19 political prisoners on Friday, including members of the party led by the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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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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UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations on Friday said it was âencouragedâ by the release of nearly 4,000 inmates in military-ruled Myanmar, including opposition leaders, and encouraged the junta to free all remaining political prisoners.
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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.