Burma frees prominent political prisoners
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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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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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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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RANGOON, BURMA - Burma&#39;s military government has reportedly released a number of political prisoners as part of a wide-ranging amnesty for thousands of prisoners it said were improperly detained.
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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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A dissident who led the 1988 student protests in Burma is freed, as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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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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YANGON, Myanmar -- 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 by the country&#39;s ruling junta, a family member confirmed Saturday.
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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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Myanmar&#39;s military junta released at least 19 political prisoners on Friday, including members of the party led by the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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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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The junta in Burma releases at least 70 people detained during recent protests, opposition party officials say.
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Nepal frees seven political leaders but arrests activists demonstrating against  the king.
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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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Yangon, Nov. 20: Myanmar&#39;s Military Government has freed the country&#39;s second most prominent political prisoner, student democracy leader Min Ko Naing, an Opposition party spokesman said today.
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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.