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Relatives wait for prisoners to be released during an annual amnesty to mark Myanmar's independence day outside Insein Prison in Yangon on January 4. (AFP)

Myanmar junta frees thousands of prisoners in annual amnesty

Thousands of prisoners, including a former government minister and a model, walked free in Myanmar on Sunday after the junta announced annual independence day pardons, a week after the start of an election that watchdogs have denounced as a sham.

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