Myanmar’s former President Win Myint has been freed as part of a broad prisoner amnesty by Min Aung Hlaing, reports the USA’s PBS News.
Burma Campaign UK said that the slow, staged release of political prisoners is designed to gain positive publicity while making no real reforms.
“If the Burmese military regime were genuine about reform, they could release all 14,000 political prisoners today,” said advocacy and communications officer Minn Tent Bo. “These people should not have been arrested in the first place. The Burmese military could stop arresting activists and could repeal all repressive laws. They haven’t done that.”