Myanmar Frees Prominent Political Prisoners
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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 on Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately
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Myanmar's military government said it was releasing 5,588 prisoners ahead of the 57th anniversary of independence on January 4, the fourth mass release in six weeks.
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Myanmar's military junta has freed an 82-year-old member of the opposition National League for Democracy who was sentenced to five years in jail for joining protests against the regime last month.
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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&#39;s ruling junta, the prisoners and family members said.
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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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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken on Thursday from her villa and de facto prison of the last four years to a state guesthouse where she has previously met foreign diplomats, her party and sources said.
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Myanmar, under pressure from the International Labor Organization (ILO) to end forced labor, has freed an activist lawyer jailed last year after exposing abuses, an official has said.
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Several members of Burma's opposition NLD are freed from jail in a move linked to a  power struggle in the military.
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Myanmar's military government announced it had begun releasing thousands of prisoners who may have been wrongly imprisoned by a recently disbanded military intelligence unit.
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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: Myanmar&#39;s junta has freed the nation&#39;s number two political prisoner as part of a release of 4,000 inmates, as analysts questioned the gesture&#39;s potential impact on democratic reform in the military-ruled state.
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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&#39;s latest release of more than 5,000 prisoners.
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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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BANGKOK, Thailand - Myanmar's secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, the long-powerful Gen. Khin Nyunt, and placed him under house arrest on corruption charges, a government spokesman in neighboring Thailand said Tuesday...
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BANGKOK: Myanmarâs military rulers freed about 500 prisoners from the notorious Insein Prison on Friday, witnesses said, but there was no immediate word on whether political detainees were among them.
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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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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