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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.