Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no ...

including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.” open image in gallery A relative celebrates with a prisoner released from Insein prison to commemorate the Buddhist New ...

Watch The Independent’s documentary Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi The amnesty coincides ... gathered outside Yangon’s Insein Prison early on Thursday morning in hopes ...

At least 19 buses carrying prisoners left Yangon's Insein prison and were welcomed outside ... when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government. That takeover was ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to nearly 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new ...

Many political detainees have been held on a charge of incitement, a catch-all offense widely used to arrest critics of the ...