According to Ko Bo Kyi, a member of the government-appointed committee to investigate the cases of political prisoners and co-secretary of Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), disclosed that 155 political prisoners will be soon freed from jail. Also included in the lists are those people who were involved in the Latpadaung protests, said news report from Mizzima.
No specific information has been given on their date of release but it will certainly come. It is important to work and coordinate with the government he said during a meeting at the Myanmar Peace Centre in Yangon last June 16.
Meanwhile, AAPP revealed that about 183 political prisoners are being considered but the problem lies on some discrepancies in the actual number of activists as a result of insufficient records and information. Three activists from the Latpadaung incident were also named.
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