A total of 249 inmates— 218 males and 31 females—, including 1 foreigner were released from Sittway prison on 12 February 2021. Photo: Tin Tun (IPRD)
413 prisoners– 341 males and 72 females– from Myeik prison, and 189 inmates from Kyaukphyutaung labour camps under the Correction Department, totally 602 persons, were released from prison on 12 February 2021. Photo: Myeik District (IPRD)
A total of 91 inmates— 84 males and 7 females— were released from Maubin prison on 12 February 2021.
Photo: Aung Khine (Maubin)
While the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is establishing a new democratic State with peace, development and disciplines, to maintain friendly relations with other countries and to create the humanitarian and compassionate grounds, the State Administration Council, issued orders 59/2021 and 60/2021 to release 23,314 local inmates and 55 foreigners from the respective prisons and jails on 12 February. As per the Code of Criminal Procedure Article 401 (1), the local inmates have to sign their pledges upon the conditions ‘to serve the new punishment together with the remaining punishment to which he/she was sentenced this time, if more offence is committed,’ while the foreign prisoners were deported to their respective countries.—Tin Tun (IPRD)/ GNLM
925 male citizen inmates, 5 male foreign inmates, totally 930, and 215 female citizen inmates and 2 female foreign inmates, totally 217, were released from Central Prison (Mandalay) on 12 February 2021. Photo: MNA
A total of 128 inmates— 119 males and 9 females— were released from Dawei prison on 12 February 2021. Photo: Dawei District IPRD
