Burma prisoner release 'resuming'
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Burma's military junta resumes prisoner releases, and says prominent inmate Win Tin is due for release.
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YANGON - Myanmar&#39;s junta will release an additional 5,070 prisoners, bringing the total number of prisoners to be released to 14,318, state media reported Saturday.
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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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19 November 2004 - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed an announcement by the Myanmar Government that it has begun releasing nearly 4,000 prisoners and called for freeing all others detained for their political beliefs.
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Burma has completed its mass release of more than 9,000 jail inmates following a shake-up in the military-run regime. A prison source says that all 9,248 prisoners promised freedom have been released, although
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RANGOON, Burma, Nov. 25 -- 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's closest aide would also be freed before long.
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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.
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Three British-linked detainees in the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay have been released and are returning to Britain, the Foreign Office and police said Wednesday.
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Burma's deputy foreign minister tells Reuters that political prisoner Win Tin is on a list of people to be freed.
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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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BURMA&#39;S military junta is going ahead with its promised mass release of prisoners and a top dissident who was democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will be among them, a senior official said today.
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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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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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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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Rangoon, Myanmar/Burma - Military officials have released almost 4,000 political prisoners, including several members of Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s National League for Democracy.
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Burma&#39;s military government has announced it has begun freeing 5,070 more prisoners, taking the number earmarked for release since last month to more than 14,300.
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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.