Xinhua world news summary at 0530 GMT, Feb 12
shanghaisun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shanghaisun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Over 23,000 prisoners remitted sentences in Myanmar | Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
bssnews.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bssnews.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2021-02-12 03:35:42 GMT2021-02-12 11:35:42(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
Video Player
Close
YANGON, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) The State Administration Council of Myanmar remitted sentences of 23,314 local prisoners and 55 foreign prisoners on Friday, according to the council s orders.
Sen-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, as chair of the council, granted pardon to the inmates who received punishments for any offence before Jan. 31 this year.
The state pardon order reduced the death penalty to life imprisonment with no possibility of release, life imprisonment and with no possibility of release to 40 years, excluding those who have been pardoned from the death penalty to life imprisonment in the previous amnesty orders.