the government's decision, announced today, to start freeing 6,313 prisoners tomorrow, but reiterates its call for the release of the 16 journalists and cyber-dissidents held in Burma.A Rangoon court also reduced blogger Nay Phone Latt's jail sentence from 20 years and six months to 12 years today, four days after comedian Zarganar's jail sentence was cut from 59 to 25 years. The original sentences were imposed last November by a special court inside Rangoon's Insein prison.
from Reporters Without Borders: On eve of major amnesty, call for release of 16 journalists and cyber-dissidents
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