AFP :
Myanmar’s junta said Saturday it would release more than 800 prisoners in an amnesty to mark the country’s UnionDay.
According to a “pardon order in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee Union
Day”, which falls every February 12, 814 prisoners will be released, the statement by junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said.
Those given amnesty will be mostly from prisons in commercial hub Yangon, junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun told AFP. He did not say whether detained
Australian academic Sean Turnell would be among those released.
Turnell, an Australian economics professor, was working as an adviser to ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi when he was arrested last February, just days after a military coup.
