Myanmar junta announces plan for more prisoner releases
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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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Thailand on Tuesday told military-ruled Myanmar that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year, but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s house arrest has been extended.
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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 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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Thailand yesterday told military-ruled Myanmar that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year, but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s house arrest has been extended.
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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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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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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s mass release of nearly 4,000 prisoners has sparked faint hopes for political detainees including pro-democracy figures, but one observer it was aimed at easing international criticism over last month&#39;s power struggle.
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YANGON: All 9,248 Myanmar prison inmates promised freedom under the military government&#39;s mass release programme have been let out of jail, said a prison department source on Saturday.
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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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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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Burma YANGON -- Burma's military government will release almost 4,000 prisoners whose detentions were ruled irrelevant or improper, state-run media reported yesterday. There were no indications the releases include political prisoners, particularly Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is held under house arrest. The announcement said 3,937 prisoners had been wrongly charged by the National Intelligence Bureau, an organization ...
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Myanmar's planned release of nearly 4,000 prisoners appeared to have halted with no sign of any easing of restrictions around the nation's most famous detainee, democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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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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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called today for the swift release of Burma&#39;s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house arrest has been extended for another year by the country&#39;s military junta.
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BANGKOK - The authorities in Burma, apparently bowing to bad publicity, released a political prisoner yesterday whose leg was broken when he was arrested in the recent outbreak of antigovernment protests. His case had gained international attention when fellow prisoners staged a hunger strike calling for his freedom.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has praised the release of several political prisoners in Myanmar, the BBC reported Saturday. Annan also said he hoped others still behind