Myanmar said on Friday that it was freeing around 100 people from jail – just days before the first sitting of a new parliament dominated by the party of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi.

Newly-released Aung Min Kyaw, one of the dozens of political prisoners said to be on the release list, wants freedom for others still behind bars.

“I am not totally happy,” he said.

“I want all the activists, political prisoners, students, farmers and workers still left behind in prison.”

Philip Blackwood, a New Zealander jailed for insulting Buddhism, was among those being released.

The bar manager and two Myanmar colleagues were sentenced to two and a half years last March
for using a psychedelic image of Buddha wearing headphones to promote their bar.

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Visiting Myanmar on Monday, US Assistant Secretary of State Antony Blinken had urged the former Bu