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Yangon, Mar 24 (EFE/EPA).- More than 600 people, mostly members of student unions detained for protesting and many who were charged with incitement, were released from Yangon's Insein Prison on Wednesday, including Associated Press photographer Thein Zaw. Since the Feb. 1 military coup, at least 275 people have been killed by security forces and 2,812 detained, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. (Camera: EPA).SHOT LIST: ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) PHOTOJOURNALIST THEIN ZAW GREETS FAMILY AND FRIENDS AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM A PRISON IN YANGON, MYANMAR.SOUND BITE: ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) PHOTOJOURNALIST THEIN ZAW (IN BURMESE).TRANSLATION: Thank you very much for those who help me to free. I am sorry that some of my colleagues are still inside the prison. I wish them free soon. Thank you very much.
A large crowd of reporters follows two Reuters journalists -jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar - as they walk out of prison, freed in a presidential amnesty. IMAGES of crowd at Insein prison and Reuters bureau's reaction in Singapore
Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets law during their reporting of a massacre of Rohingya face a court ruling Monday that could see them jailed for up to 14 years. IMAGES
Two Reuters journalists are jailed for seven years for breaching Myanmar's official secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a judge says, a case that has drawn outrage as an attack on media freedom. IMAGES of Reuters journalists leaving court
Final arguments are held in the trial of two Reuters journalists in Yangon, Myanmar. Wa Lone, 32, and his colleague Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, have been in jail for eight months, accused of breaking a draconian secrecy law while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state last year. IMAGES outside the court