Burma&#39;s prisoner release complete: source
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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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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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Most remaining Pakistani prisoners held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp are freed, officials say.
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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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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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Burma's government says its draft constitution has been completed, paving the way for a referendum in May.
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Myanmar's military junta is to release a  further 5,070 prisoners, state media announced on Saturday,  bringing the total number of prisoners released in recent weeks  to more than 14,000.
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The four remaining Britons held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are to be released, British government sources said Monday.
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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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Burma&#39;s military rulers will free 5,311 more prisoners after the government said earlier this month thousands of others would also be released, according to state media reports.
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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 military government says it has released thousands of people from jail as promised, but there appeared few political prisoners among those emerging from Yangon&#39;s notorious Insein prison.
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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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A Bangladeshi and a Sri Lankan held hostage in Iraq have been released, their governments say.
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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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have been freed in military-ruled Myanmar, part of the junta&#39;s latest release of more than 5,000 prisoners. U Htwe Myint, 76, and U Thu Wai, also in his 70s, were released from Yangon&#39;s notorious Insein prison.
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Burma's ruling junta frees about 500 more prisoners, and says it will release veteran dissident Win Tin.