BANGKOK (AP) — Excited families greeted relatives released from Myanmar's Insein Prison on Thursday as part of a mass amnesty granted by the country's military rulers ahead of next month's election.

The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to thousands of prisoners, mostly political detainees, and activists being prosecuted or in hiding.

A raft of political prisoners were freed after being convicted under the scattergun law of “harboring or financing” terrorists, but senior democratic figures remain in jail.

Myanmar’s military junta granted amnesty today to more than 7,000 prisoners convicted of financing or sheltering a “terrorist group”, a designation it ...

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