Former President Win Myint was freed as part of a broad prisoner amnesty by Min Aung Hlaing to mark the traditional New Year, reports US-based News4JAX.
Burma Campaign UK said that the slow, staged release of political prisoners is designed to gain positive publicity while making no real reforms. “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.”