2 Political Prisoners Released in Myanmar
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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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The Myanmar government released about 500 prisoners from the notorious Insein Prison Friday, witnesses said. There was no immediate word, however, on whether political detainees were among them.
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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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The junta in Burma releases at least 70 people detained during recent protests, opposition party officials say.
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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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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s military government has freed the country&#39;s second most prominent political prisoner, student democracy leader Min Ko Naing, an opposition party spokesman told AFP.
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Burma&#39;s junta has freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately&quot;.
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YANGON: The release of thousands of prisoners including top dissidents in military-run Myanmar âlends dignity to the nationâ, the main opposition party said on Saturday as it praised those freed for their struggle for democracy.
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Myanmar&#39;s second most prominent political prisoner, Min Ko Naing, leader of the 1988 student democracy protests, has been freed by the ruling generals, a source close to his family said early on Saturday.
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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  - Myanmar has completed its mass release of more than 9,000 inmates, a prison department source said, following a shake-up in the military-run regime.
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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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YANGON  - Military-ruled Myanmar freed several prominent opposition party figures as part of a mass prisoner release one month after a power struggle ousted the country&#39;s premier.
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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&#39;s military dictators have freed a top dissident - second only to democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi - after 16 years in jail.
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Only a few hundred of 4,000 prisoners, including political dissidents, that Myanmar has vowed to free have been released and it could take at least a week for them all to leave jail, the opposition said.
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have been freed in military-ruled Myanmar, part of the junta&#39;s latest release of more than 5,000 prisoners. U Htwe Myint, 76, and U Thu Wai, also in his 70s, were released from Yangon&#39;s notorious Insein prison.