Reuters said that the Burma Military Council released 6000 prisoners, including 4 foreign prisoners, on the occasion of the National Day.
Among the prisoners exempt from the prisoner, a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist, and an Australian consultant to the civilian government of Aung San Suu Che, who were overthrown.
A senior Burmese official told AFP that the former British Ambassador Vicky Bowman, Australian economic advisor Sean Tournil and Japanese journalist Toro Kopota “will be released on the occasion of the country’s national day”.
Bowman, who held the position of ambassador from 2002 to 2006 with her husband in August, was arrested for not saying that she lives in a different address from the address mentioned in the registration certificate for foreigners, and sentenced them to a year’s prison.
The official added that her husband, the prominent artist “Hinin Lane”, would also be released.
Australian Sean Tournell was a consultant for the Civil Civilian Such Chee when he was arrested in February last year.
In September, he was convicted by Wamo Chi by a closed military court to violate the official secrets law and sentenced them to three years in prison.
As for the 26 -year -old Japanese, he was arrested in July near a Group of government in Yangon with two Burmese citizens, and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A France Presse correspondent reported that the prisoners’ families gathered in front of Insin Prison in Yangon before the expected announcement..
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