Thai Government Releases 900 Men, Charges 300 in Violent ...
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ordered the release of at least 900 men, but officials plan to prosecute about 300 for their part in a violent demonstration on Monday.
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Burma&#39;s military government began releasing almost 4,000 prisoners yesterday whose detentions were ruled irrelevant or improper, state-run radio and television said.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Almost 80 people died in  military custody in southern Thailand, suffocated while being  transported in trucks to army barracks after a violent  demonstration by Muslims, officials said Tuesday.
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Myanmar&#39;s ruling military junta announced Saturday that more than 5,000 prisoners have had their sentences suspended and will be freed from various prisons around the
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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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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday he would take charge of efforts to end violence in the largely Muslim south, where nearly 360 people have been killed since violence erupted in January.
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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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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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Senior Thai officials were negligent in  the deaths of 78 Muslims in army custody in October and will be  punished, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Wednesday.
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The Thai armed forces launched a coup against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra today while he was attending the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York.
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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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Relatives wait outside a military base in Pattani province, southern Thailand, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 in a bid to see Thai-Muslim demonstrators arrested by security forces after Monday&#39;s riot.
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on bail listen as Thai army and police officials give a press conference at the Thaksin Palace in Narathiwat, southern Thailand, November 1, 2004.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand - Hundreds of Muslim men were freed in southern Thailand on Saturday after being detained last week in the wake of protests that left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide.
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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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More than 1,100 Muslims, detained in Thailand after a riot, were freed on Saturday as the government tried to ease anger in the country&#39;s restive south over the deaths of 78 accused rioters who perished in military custody.
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In an apparent attempt to ease tensions in the South, the government has revoked the curfew in Narathiwat province, scene of last week&#39;s violence, and freed hundreds of detained protesters.