Some junta foes go free in Myanmar release
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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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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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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.
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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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YANGON, MYANMAR - The military government of Myanmar promised Thursday that it will release another 5,000 prisoners, including some people who have been jailed for political activity.
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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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Burmaâs military junta released at least 19 political prisoners today, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.
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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's latest  release of more than 5,000 prisoners.
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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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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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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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Myanmar's ruling junta has freed its  second most prominent political prisoner, leader of the 1988  student democracy protests Min Ko Naing, in a move analysts  said could be a major step toward political reform.
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Military-ruled Myanmar has released at least 11 dissidents among more than 5,000 prisoners freed in its latest mass release, opposition parties and officials said.
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Win Tin, one of Myanmar's best-known journalists and a key opposition figure, was released from prison with several other members of the pro-democracy movement, a party source has told AFP.
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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 RANGOON -- Burma will free 5,000 prisoners, the military government said yesterday, just a week after it released nearly 4,000 others, including some held for political reasons. There was no indication that detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi would be freed. The releases coincided with the opening of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit yesterday in Laos, ...
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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.