Prominent Dissident Released in Myanmar
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One of Myanmar&#39;s best known and longest-imprisoned political dissidents has been freed as part of a general release of almost 4,000 prisoners granted by the country&#39;s ruling junta, a family member confirmed Saturday.
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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 Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country's ruling junta, the prisoners and family members said.
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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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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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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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BANGKOK, Thailand - Myanmar's secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, the long-powerful Gen. Khin Nyunt, and placed him under house arrest on corruption charges, a government spokesman in neighboring Thailand said Tuesday...
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BURMA&#39;s military dictators have given the dissident democracy movement a rare pleasant surprise by unexpectedly releasing from prison the man thought to be a potential successor to Aung San Suu Kyi as a democracy leader.
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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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Negotiators from Myanmar&#39;s largest armed rebel group have been freed after they were detained during a political shakeup in Yangon, the rebel group said today.
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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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Several members of Burma's opposition NLD are freed from jail in a move linked to a  power struggle in the military.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken on Thursday from the villa where she has been held for the last four years to a state guesthouse where she has previously met foreign diplomats, diplomatic sources said.
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Vietnamese officials release leading dissident Nguyen Vu Binh, who was convicted of spying in 2003.
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YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar&#39;s military junta is going ahead with its promised mass release of prisoners and a top dissident who was Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will be among those freed, a senior official said Thursday.
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BANGKOK: Myanmarâs military rulers freed about 500 prisoners from the notorious Insein Prison on Friday, witnesses said, but there was no immediate word on whether political detainees were among them.
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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.