State media says almost 6,000 people will be released from prison, including four foreigners who had been held for months
Almost 6,000 people will be released from prison in Myanmar, including the Australian academic Sean Turnell, Britain’s former ambassador Vicky Bowman, and Japanese film-maker Toru Kubota, junta-controlled media has said.
On Thursday Myanmar’s state-run MRTV said that the foreign nationals, as well as a Burmese-American citizen, had been released and deported in a so-called amnesty timed to coincide with Myanmar National Day.
