Home at last: Family members and colleagues welcoming released prisoners being transported in buses from Insein Prison in Yangon. — AP Hundreds of inmates walked free after the junta announced annual ...

As of Wednesday the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 20 years in detention in Myanmar, five of them since her government was overthrown by a military coup in ...

Hundreds of prisoners, including a former government minister and a model, walked free in Myanmar Sunday after the junta announced annual independence day pardons, a week after the start of an ...

YANGON, Myanmar, Jan 5, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Hundreds of prisoners, including a former government minister and a model, walked free in Myanmar on Sunday after the junta announced annual independence day ...

Relatives celebrate with a man after he was released during an annual amnesty to mark Myanmar’s independence day outside Insein prison in Yangon on January 4, 2026. Myanmar’s junta said on January 4 ...

Hundreds of prisoners, including a former government minister and a model, walked free in Myanmar on Jan. 4 after the junta announced annual independence day pardons, a week after the start of an ...

Hundreds of prisoners walked free in Myanmar on Sunday after the junta announced annual independence day pardons, just a week after the start of an election that international monitors have denounced ...

YANGON: Hundreds of prisoners walked free in Myanmar on Sunday after the junta announced annual independence day pardons, just a week after the start of an election that international monitors have ...

Relatives gather around a bus carrying released prisoners out of Insein prison during an annual amnesty to mark Myanmar's independence day in Yangon on January 4, 2026. SAI AUNG MAIN / AFP Hundreds of ...

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