Yangon (HRNW) Witnesses said hundreds imprisoned after last month’s coup were freed on Wednesday in what appeared to be the first gesture by Myanmar’s military to placate persistent protesters.
Several full buses drove from Yangon’s notorious Insein Prison. Myanmar state television said 628 people had been released.
Most of them were students previously held at police stations and prisons, reported the news portal Myanmar Now.
The Associated Press said one of its journalists, photographer Thein Zaw, had told his family that he was being released.
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