Burmese junta releases nearly 4,000 prisoners

Burma’s military junta released at least 19 political prisoners, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.

The prisoners included at least three senior members of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party and 72-year-old journalist Win Tin, said Bo Kyi, a Burma dissident who runs an aid group for political prisoners in neighbouring Thailand.