Burmese authorities announced Monday a mass release of more than 3,000 prisoners, including about 100 foreigners, on the occasion of the celebration of the Burmese New Year.
The Burmese Military Council has announced that 3,015 prisoners from various prisons have been pardoned, 98 of them foreigners, according to the news portal Mizzima News.
The military junta has indicated that the sentences have been reduced on the condition that those who have been pardoned continue to serve the current punishment and a new one in case they commit another crime.
According to the Association for the Care of Political Prisoners (AAPP), as of April 12, following the February 2021 coup, there have been a total of 21,348 arrests, of which 17,460 people are still in detention, and more than 3,200 people have died victims of repression.
The Government of National Unity, the Burmese democratic authorities in exile, has indicated that the Burmese Army has committed more than 30 massacres of civilians throughout the country since the seizure of power by the Army, while the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, denounced at the beginning of March the »impunity» with which the Burmese military junta has been acting for two years, which he accused of creating a »perpetual» political and humanitarian crisis.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
