Myanmar pardons over 7,000 prisoners with sentences for Aung San Suu Kyi reduced

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Myanmar pardons over 7,000 prisoners with sentences for Aung San Suu Kyi reduced

STORY: Myanmar pardons over 7,000 prisoners with sentences for Aung San Suu Kyi reduced DATELINE: Aug. 2, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:00 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people waiting for released prisoners outside the Insein Prison 2. various of buses carrying newly released prisoners outside the Insein Prison STORYLINE: Myanmar's State Administration Council on Tuesday granted pardons to over 7,000 prisoners and reduced sentences for former State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and former president U Win Myint, according to the council's orders. Six years of sentences for Suu Kyi and four years of sentences for U Win Myint were also reduced, the council said. The council also remitted sentences for 7,749 Myanmar prisoners and 125 foreign prisoners, while commuting death sentences for some prisoners to life imprisonment, according to the orders. In addition, the council remitted the sentences for 22 members of the ethnic armed groups and also dismissed the cases related t

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