缅甸星期二开始释放囚犯，这是缅甸政府下令执行的宽恕行动的一部分。但是一些活动人士说，按照这项计划能被释放的政治犯人数还不够。被押囚犯的数十名亲属星期二聚集在仰光恶名昭著的永盛监狱外，等候他们的亲人得到释放。外界认为缅甸关押了数百名政治犯，尽管缅甸最近进行了民主改革，这项宽恕计划对政治犯的影响很少，许多人对此感到失望。
星期一，缅甸总统吴登盛签署宽恕令，纪念缅甸独立64周年。根据这项命令， 大多数囚犯的刑期将被缩短。根据这个计划，一些死刑将被减为终身监禁。30年以上的刑期将被降低至30年；30年以下、20年以上的刑期将被降到20年；其余更短的刑期将被缩减四分之一。许多活动人士和囚犯家属本来期望的是大赦，而不仅是减刑。
Burma on Tuesday began releasing prisoners as part of a government-ordered clemency program. But some activists say not enough political prisoners are being freed under the deal. Dozens of family members of inmates gathered Tuesday outside the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon, waiting for the release of their relatives.But many were disappointed the clemency appeared to do little for the hundreds of political prisoners thought to be held in the country, despite recent democratic reforms.
On Monday, President Thein Sein signed a clemency deal that would reduce the sentences of most inmates to mark the country's 64th anniversary of independence. Under the program, some death sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment. Prison terms above 30 years will be reduced to 30 years, and those between 20 and 30 years will be cut to 20 years. Shorter sentences will be cut by a quarter. Many activists and relatives of prisoners had hoped for amnesty instead of sentence reductions.
