Burma’s state television
has announced that the authoritarian government will free more than 6,000 prisoners in an amnesty today, raising hopes for a release of political prisoners that could lead to an easing of economic sanctions on the isolated country.
The news came after the government’s newly created National Human Rights Commission published an unprecedented letter in the tightly controlled state media appealing for freedom for those “prisoners of conscience” who do not pose “a threat to the stability and tranquillity of the state”.
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