According to the media institutions of Myanmar, about 5774 prisoners will be released during this period. These include 600 women prisoners.
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Myanmar’s military government will release about 6,000 prisoners under the amnesty plan. Four foreign prisoners are also included in these. Myanmar According to the media institutions of India, about 5774 prisoners will be released during this period. These include 600 women prisoners. This is being done on National Victory Day. Government spokesman Major General Jaw Min Tun told Voice of Myanmar and Yangon Media Group on Thursday that Australian academic Sean Turnell, Japanese filmmaker Toru Kubota, former British diplomat Vicki Bowman and an unidentified American citizen have been released and repatriated to their countries. has given.
However, the release of these prisoners has not yet been independently confirmed. Security forces arrested Turnell, 58, an assistant professor of economics at Macquarie University in Sydney, from a hotel in Yangon. He was sentenced to three years in prison in September for violating the country’s official secrets law and immigration law.
These allegations were on foreign nationals
Kubota, 26, from Japan, was arrested on July 30 for taking pictures and videos of a demonstration organized against the military’s takeover of power in Yangon last year. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment last month. At the same time, Bowman, former British ambassador to Myanmar, was arrested in Yangon in August along with her husband. Her husband is a citizen of Myanmar. He was sentenced to one year in prison in September for not registering his residence.
APEC conference will start in Bangkok
Apart from this, the two-day summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum will begin on Friday in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. The war in Ukraine, the rivalry for dominance in Asia, the global crisis of food and energy shortages, inflation and supply chain disruptions are among the topics of discussion for the 21-member organization.
Thani Thongphakdi, Permanent Secretary at Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, this year has been challenging on many fronts. The global economy as well as the entire APEC region is still grappling with the effects of COVID-19 and recovering from economic crises, tensions and crises that have affected all aspects of our lives.
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