{"id":20775,"date":"2019-04-17T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=20775"},"modified":"2019-04-17T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:18:57","slug":"myanmar-govt-grants-amnesty-to-9535-local-and-16-foreign-prisoners-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=20775","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar govt grants amnesty to 9,535 local and 16 foreign prisoners on New Year&#8217;s day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YANGON, April 17 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA) &#8212; Myanmar&#8217;s government on Wednesday granted amnesty to 9,535 prisoners of Myanmar nationals unconditionally\u00a0according to an order of the President&#8217;s Office, reported Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The amnesty was extended on the occasion of Myanmar&#8217;s traditional new year and on humanitarian ground, the order said, adding that further scrutiny will be made to the remaining prisoners who deserve to be granted so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order also gave amnesty to 16 foreign prisoners unconditionally and deported them on humanitarian ground and in view of relations between respective countries and Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On previous new year&#8217;s day, Myanmar&#8217;s government also released 8,490 domestic and 51 foreign prisoners under similar unconditional presidential amnesty order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YANGON, April 17 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA) &#8212; Myanmar&#8217;s government on Wednesday granted amnesty to 9,535 prisoners of Myanmar nationals unconditionally\u00a0according to an order of the President&#8217;s Office, reported Xinhua news agency. The amnesty was extended on the occasion of Myanmar&#8217;s traditional new year and on humanitarian ground, the order said, adding that further scrutiny will be made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}