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Myanmar's recent mass release of prisoners is aimed at relieving growing regional and global pressure, analysts say, especially amid concerns that Indonesia might take tougher measures against the junta as the new chair of Asean. The military government on Nov 17 released nearly 6,000 prisoners, including several foreign nationals, as part of a broader amnesty to mark Myanmar's National Day,...

An Australian economist released after nearly two years in a Myanmar jail has told of interrogations in leg irons, squalor and the sounds of screams from tortured cellmates during his time behind bars.

Political prisoners accounted for fewer than 7% of the 5,774 inmates released by the junta on Nov. 17, according to a rights group.

Australian tells of Myanmar jail squalor, torture fear

The ex-adviser to the NLD, who was freed by the junta last week after two years, said he was initially interrogated in leg irons and spent months in solitary confinement.

Sean Turnell was working as an adviser to Myanmars civilian leader Suu Kyi when he was detained shortly after the coup

SYDNEY, Nov 22, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - An Australian economist released last week after nearly two years in a Myanmar jail on

BANGKOK (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The Association of South-east Asian (Asean) defence chiefs held their annual retreat on Tuesday (Nov 22) without a representative from Myanmar amid the prolonged political crisis in the country.

After nearly two years of getting nowhere to stem the tide of open armed conflict in Myanmar in the aftermath of the Myanmar military junta putsch that ousted the civilian government in February 2021, the ASEAN Leaders' Review and Decision on the Implementation of the Five-Point Consensus (5PC) 15-point statement was released on 11 November with the aim to change the dire status quo.

It is time for the bloc to take the unprecedented step of listening to the people of Myanmar.