Myanmar says to release all remaining political prisoners
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The Myanmar government on Tuesday announced release of all remaining political prisoners in the end of 2013.
It said the move aims to ensure stability of the state and lasting peace and to build national reconsolidation and ensure all inclusiveness in the country's political process.
The pardon covers only those being convicted and persecuted in cases under such laws as Unlawful Association Act cases, treason cases, sedition cases, the Law to Safeguard the State from the Danger of Subversive Elements cases, Peaceful Gathering and Peaceful Procession Law cases, Act of Harming Public Interest eases and Emergency Act cases, said an order of the President's Office.
All convicted shall be pardoned in connection with the said cases, the order said.
Under the president's amnesty order, all remaining prisoners of conscience will be freed later on Tuesday from prisons across the nation.
Myanmar last freed 41 remaining prisoners of conscience on Dec. 11 from prisons nationwide.
The number of the freed prisoners had added up to 29,861 as of Dec. 11 since the new civilian government took office on March 30, 2011.
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