Myanmar to free 5,000 more prisoners
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YANGON, MYANMAR - The military government of Myanmar promised Thursday that it will release another 5,000 prisoners, including some people who have been jailed for political activity.
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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&#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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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: All 9,248 Myanmar prison inmates promised freedom under the military government&#39;s mass release programme have been let out of jail, said a prison department source on Saturday.
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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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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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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.
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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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Two prominent pro-democracy leaders were among hundreds of prisoners released from a Myanmar prison Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country's ruling junta, the prisoners and family members said.
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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&#39;s military junta released at least 19 political prisoners Friday as part of a group of nearly 4,000 prisoners it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.
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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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YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar&#39;s military junta is going ahead with its promised mass release of prisoners and a top dissident who was Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will be among those freed, a senior official said Thursday.
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RANGOON, Burma -- Burma's military junta released at least 19 political prisoners yesterday, including members of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party who were among thousands of inmates whose detentions were ruled improper. Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, remained under house arrest.
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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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RANGOON - At least two dissidents are among thousands of prisoners being freed by the Myanmar military government in a third mass release in less than a month.