Over 7,300 receive amnesty

Freedom at last: Relatives celebrating with a family member after she was released from Insein Prison in Yangon to mark Peasants’ Day. — AFP

The military junta granted amnesty to more than 7,000 prisoners convicted of financing or sheltering a “terrorist group”, a designation it has used to outlaw pro-democracy factions opposing its rule.

Thousands of dissenting civilians have been swept into jails since Myanmar’s military snatched power in a 2021 coup, ending a decade-long experiment with democracy and detaining elected figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi.