Myanmar’s junta has announced it had pardoned more than 2,000 prisoners jailed under a law that criminalises encouraging dissent against the military. The military pardoned “2,153 prisoners serving sentences under Penal Code 505 (a) to mark Kasone Full Moon Day”, a Buddhist festival, the junta said in a statement on Wednesday.

 

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