Burma&#39;s junta frees prominent dissident
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Burma&#39;s military dictators have freed a top dissident - second only to democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi - after 16 years in jail.
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Burmese authorities release three prominent dissidents involved in last month's democracy protests.
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Vietnam frees dissident Pham Hong Son, jailed four years ago for posting a US article on democracy.
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Burma&#39;s ruling military junta has placed Aung San Suu Kyi, the country&#39;s charismatic opposition leader, under an additional year of house arrest, dashing hopes
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Myanmar&#39;s junta freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party on Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately
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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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Vietnam has released one of its best-known dissidents from prison, two weeks before its president is to make a historic visit to the United States, an official said Sunday.
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Myanmar&#39;s junta freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately
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The prime minister of Burma&#39;s secretive military government, General Khin Nyunt, had been removed from office by hardliners in the regime, according to reports from neighbouring Thailand.
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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 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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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&#39;s junta has freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately&quot;.
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Myanmar's military junta has freed an 82-year-old member of the opposition National League for Democracy who was sentenced to five years in jail for joining protests against the regime last month.
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YANGON  - Military-ruled Myanmar freed several prominent opposition party figures as part of a mass prisoner release one month after a power struggle ousted the country&#39;s premier.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken on Thursday from her villa and de facto prison of the last four years to a state guesthouse where she has previously met foreign diplomats, her party and sources said.
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Vietnamese officials release leading dissident Nguyen Vu Binh, who was convicted of spying in 2003.