6/12/07 Burma to Free 49 Bangladeshi Prisoners

Burma to Free 49 Bangladeshi Prisoners

12/6/2007

Dhaka: The Burmese government has agreed to free forty-nine Bangladeshi prisoners being held in the country in the near future, said a Bangladesh official.
The official said, "We expect they will be free very soon, and the Burmese authority is preparing to hand over the prisoners to Bangladesh."
A few Bangladesh nationals have been detained in Burma's prisons for entering Burmese territory without permission, said a police officer in Maungdaw.
Bangladesh officials said that fishermen and loggers had been been picked up by the Burmese border security force, Nasaka, while they were working inside Bangladesh territory.
Bangladesh and Burma share over 200 miles of border and quarrels over arrests of citizens on either side are common.
"I see this as a good and friendly gesture... It shows that patient diplomacy bears fruit," Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Foreign Affairs Adviser to the Bangladesh interim government, said in a statement.

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