{"id":43251,"date":"2026-01-04T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=43251"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:02:12","slug":"myanmar-announces-mass-prisoner-release-on-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=43251","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Announces Mass Prisoner Release on Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Naypyidaw, Myanmar<\/strong> &#8211; The ruling military council of Myanmar announced Sunday the release of over 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty commemorating the country&#8217;s Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>The State Administration Council (SAC) stated that Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the military junta, had granted amnesty to 6,134 imprisoned citizens. A separate statement indicated that 52 foreign prisoners would also be released and subsequently deported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the SAC, the annual prisoner release is carried out for &#8220;humanitarian and compassionate reasons,&#8221; coinciding with the 78th anniversary of Myanmar&#8217;s independence from British colonial rule. State broadcaster MRTV described the amnesty as a humanitarian gesture towards the people.<\/p>\n<p>The military council also announced a reduction of sentences by one-sixth for convicts across the country, with exceptions for those convicted of serious crimes such as murder, rape, terrorism, corruption, and offenses related to weapons or drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people gathered outside Insein Prison in Yangon on Sunday, awaiting the release of their relatives, holding signs bearing the names of prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar has been gripped by turmoil since the 2021 military coup, which ousted the elected civilian government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The military&#8217;s violent suppression of pro-democracy protests sparked an armed rebellion across the country. <em>The amnesty comes amidst ongoing international pressure for the restoration of democracy and the release of political prisoners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naypyidaw, Myanmar &#8211; The ruling military council of Myanmar announced Sunday the release of over 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty commemorating the country&#8217;s Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>The State Administration Council (SAC) stated that Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43253,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251\/revisions\/43253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}