A total of 5,774 prisoners from prisons across the country were given an amnesty from their sen­tences in honour of the National Victory Day and on humanitar­ian grounds. Four hundred and fifty-five inmates from the Man­dalay Central Prison were given an exemption from their punish­ment yesterday, it is learnt.

Minister for Security and Border Affairs Colonel Kyaw Kyaw Min of Mandalay Region Government, in his speech on the occasion, urged the inmates to help develop the country, im­prove the peace and harmony of family life and not commit crimes again in the future.

Then, prison officials con­ducted COVID-19 inspections for exempted inmates and released them from prison after giving them travel expenses.

There are five prisons in Mandalay Region and Nay Pyi Taw and a total of 988 prison­ers from those prisons were re­leased under the amnesty order. – Maung Aye Chan/GNLM