YANGON, Dec 13: Military-ruled Myanmar has released at least 11 dissidents among more than 5,000 prisoners it has ordered freed in its latest mass release, opposition parties said on Monday.
The tally brings to 50 or more the number of political prisoners freed by the junta since mid-November, when it began ordering the release of thousands of people who may have been wrongly imprisoned by a military intelligence unit.
"Altogether seven from our party have been freed so far this time," spokesman U Lwin of the main opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party told AFP.
