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Once championing democracy, meritocracy and anticorruption, many young politicians have made a 180-degree turn and are now eating their words to justify the political practices they used to adamantly oppose.
"Since the weather is extremely hot, it is not only for Aung San Suu Kyi ... For all those, who need necessary precautions, especially elderly prisoners, we are working to protect them from heatstroke," junta spokesperson Major General Zaw Min Tun said in comments reported by four media outlets.
In a bid to reduce overcrowding in prisons, a government-sanctioned but independent team tasked with renewing ongoing judicial reforms has recommended a mass clemency program for convicted drug users and a revision of the narcotics law, which is among the world’s strictest.
While the general public has found fault with the Supreme Court’s decision reduce the sentences of those found guilty for the premeditated murder of National Police Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, human rights experts have lauded it as a step toward abolishing capital punishment.
"I want to extend my apologies, first to those who thought that I would be rotting in this place. If anyone thought that I would be physically and socially a corpse, Alhamdulillah that did not happen,” the graft convict said upon his release.
