Most of the released prisoners had been charged with incitement and were due to be released soon, observers noted
Thura Aung Ko is released from Yangon’s Insein Prison some 10 months after being convicted of corruption by Myanmar’s military regime
One of the first protesters to be detained after the February 2021 coup recalls his time inside one of the most dreaded detention centres in Myanmar
Shwe Htoo, a leader of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, was previously imprisoned under the Than Shwe regime
The victim, who was accused of insulting the prison’s warden, also had a taser shoved in his mouth, a prison source claimed