Australian Sean Turnell expected to be released from Myanmar prison - 17-Nov-2022
Myanmar's military junta has announced it will release Australian economist Sean Turnell from prison.
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Myanmar's military junta has announced it will release Australian economist Sean Turnell from prison.
YANGON (AFP): Myanmar's junta said Thursday (Nov 17) it will release 700 prisoners, including a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist and an Australian adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's ousted government.
A U.S. citizen who returned to his homeland of Myanmar is one of four foreigners being released by the country's military junta in a prisoner amnesty.
Myanmar's military said Thursday it will release almost 6,000 prisoners, including a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist and an Australian economics adviser in a rare olive branch from the isolated junta.
Myanmar's military-controlled government announced Thursday it was releasing and deporting an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat...