IN commemoration of Myanmar’s New Year and for the sake of public peace and humanitarian concerns, prisoners from various prisons were granted amnesty under Article 401 (a) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and 891 male and female inmates, including foreigners, were released from Insein prison in Yangon. Yangon Region Security and Border Affairs Minister Colonel Win Tint and Yangon Region Police Force Commander Police Brig-Gen Sein Lwin delivered speeches to the inmates at the gymnasium of the Insein Prison. The released prisoners included 10 foreigners, 655 males and 226 females, totalling 891, and they were transported to their respective townships by YBS buses. — Nyein Thu (MNA)/KTZH

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