Myanmar’s military-controlled government says it has released an ex-British diplomat, as well as an Australian academic and a Japanese filmmaker, as part of a prisoner amnesty to mark the country’s National Victory Day.
Government spokesperson major general Zaw Min Tun told the Voice of Myanmar and Yangon Media Group on Thursday that Vicky Bowman, Sean Turnell and Toru Kubota – along with an unidentified American – had been released and deported.
Myanmar’s state-run MRTV reported they were among a total of 5,774 prisoners who were being released. Ms Bowman, 56, a former British ambassador to Myanmar, was arrested with her husband, a Myanmar national, in Yangon in August.
