Yangon releases more NLD members

Yangon releases more NLD members

MYANMAR: The military government released five more opposition
prisoners on Tuesday as the UN's human rights envoy to the
country arrived for his second visit.

The government has been steadily releasing detained members of
the National League for Democracy (NLD) since beginning
confidential talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi a year
ago. Tuesday's releases bring the total number of NLD members
freed since the talks began to 174.

A government statement said the five released NLD members "are
all in good health and are back with their respective families".

Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the UN's special rapporteur for human
rights in Myanmar, arrived in Yangon on Tuesday and is due to
stay in the country until Oct. 20, meeting government officials,
opposition leaders and diplomats, UN sources said. --Reuters