Myanmar court frees student activists after Suu Kyi pledge

THARRAWADDY,Myanmar: A Myanmar court on Friday freed dozens of jailed students, in the first wave of detainee releases after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to make freeing activists and political prisoners a priority of her new government.

There were jubilant scenes at the sweltering central Myanmar courthouse in Tharrawaddy, as a judge told the young activists they could go home more than a year after they were arrested over an education protest that was violently crushed by police in March 2015.