myanmarYANGON: Myanmar is set to free prominent democracy activist Min Ko Naing on Friday under its latest prisoner amnesty, his family said, in the latest reformist move by the army-backed regime.

"He will be released this morning. The authorities informed us already," his sister Kyi Kyi Nyunt told AFP.

A government official said former prime minister and military intelligence boss Khin Nyunt would also be released.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012

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