YANGON: Myanmar's military said Thursday it will release almost 6,000 prisoners including a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist and an Australian economics...
YANGON: Myanmar's military said Thursday it will release almost 6,000 prisoners including a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist and an Australian economics adviser who will be deported, in a rare olive branch from the isolated junta. The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the military's coup last year and a bloody crackdown on dissent that has seen thousands jailed. Dozens of foreign nationals have been caught up in the crackdown.
Kubota, 26, was detained in July near an anti-government rally in Yangon along with two Myanmar citizens and jailed for 10 years. A source at Japan's embassy in Myanmar told AFP they had 'been informed that Mr. Kubota will be released today' by junta authorities.Kubota would leave for Japan 'today', they added.
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