Myanmar frees prisoners, few dissidents
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Yangoon (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Myanmarâs military junta freed about 500 of the nearly 4,000 prisoners it promised to release, this according to eyewitness accounts.
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YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar&#39;s military government said Thursday that it will release 5,311 prisoners in addition to almost 4,000 whose planned release was announced last week.
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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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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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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.
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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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Myanmar's military government has freed all but one of 52 people detained for holding prayer vigils for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said on Thursday.
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Myanmar's ruling generals have freed  their second most prominent political prisoner, Min Ko Naing,  leader of student democracy protests in 1988, a source close to  his family said on Saturday.
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Burma&#39;s military junta has freed a top dissident - second only to Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi - as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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YANGON, Myanmar Win Tin, a prominent journalist who is an aide to the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was reported to be among the 4,000 people freed Friday by the junta, which said they had been arrested &quot;inappropriately&quot; by the dismantled
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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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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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At least two Burmese dissidents are among thousands of prisoners being freed by the military government in a third mass release in less than a month.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - 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's ruling military junta.
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Myanmar's junta held nearly 1,200 political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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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 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.