To mark the country's independence day.
State broadcaster MRTV said on Wednesday that 7,012 prisoners were due to be released under the amnesty, although it did not provide further details on the inmates.
The writer was arrested at the start of the coup and sentenced to three years in jail for alleged incitement. The U.N. Security Council last month adopted its first resolution on Myanmar in 74 years, demanding an end to violence and for the junta to free all political detainees.
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