(17 Apr 2025)
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Yangon, Myanmar – 17 April 2025
1. Various of buses leaving front gate of Yangon’s Insein prison carrying released prisoners, crowd holding signs with names
2. Various of reunited families hugging and crying
3. Wide of people getting off bus
4. Families reuniting
STORYLINE:
Relatives and friends of convicts serving sentences in Myanmar waited outside jails Thursday to greet their loved ones, after the head of the military government granted an amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new year, state-run media reported Thursday.
There were emotional scenes outside Insein Prison in the former capital Yangon, as those released embraced their families in tearful curbside reunions.
The Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar, a watchdog group which records violations of Human Rights in Myanmar’s prisons, said in a statement that the group has initially recorded the release of 22 political prisoners, so far.
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the ruling military council, pardoned a total of 4,893 prisoners, MRTV reported.
Other prisoners received reduced sentences, except for those convicted of serious charges such as murder and rape, or those jailed on charges under various other security acts.
Mass amnesties on the holiday are not unusual in Myanmar.
Myanmar has been under military rule since Feb. 1, 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government. The takeover was met with massive nonviolent resistance, which has since become a widespread armed struggle. The country is now in civil war.
Some 22,197 political detainees, including Suu Kyi, were in detention as of last Friday, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an independent organization that keeps detailed tallies of arrests and casualties linked to the nation’s political conflicts.
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