(Reuters) - Hundreds of prisoners, who had been arrested for protesting against last month's military coup in Myanmar, were freed on Wednesday from a prison in Yangon, witnesses and domestic media said.
Several buses full of prisoners drove out of Insein prison in the morning, said the witnesses, who included lawyers for some inmates.
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