Myanmar government said it will set free 5,770 prisoners — including four foreigners — on Thursday, part of a broader amnesty to mark the country's National Day.
for immigration violations. Japanese filmmaker Toru Kubota is also being released and deported, according to state run media. Burmese-American Kyaw Htay Oo, a former 88 Generation student activist who returned to Myanmar from the U.S. in 2017, is also being released. The 88 Generation Students is a pro-democracy movement known for its activism against the country's military junta and is named after the 1988 student-led protests against the junta in the country.
In July, Myanmar's military executed four opponents of the regime, the first executions in the country in several decades in an effort widely seen as an effort to intimidate opponents of the regime. The four had been convicted early this year in closed door trials. Two of them were prominent democracy activists. The regime said all four had been executed in secret for carrying out"brutal and inhumane terror acts," a charge rejected by their defenders.
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