YANGON: Myanmar's junta said Saturday it would release more than 800 prisoners in an amnesty to mark the country's Union Day.

According to a "pardon order in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee Union Day," which falls every February 12, 814 prisoners will be released, the statement by junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said.

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