緬甸爲囚犯減刑，活動人士表示失望

Burma on Tuesday began releasing prisoners as part of a government-ordered clemency program. But some activists say not enough political prisoners are being freed under the deal. Dozens of family members of inmates gathered Tuesday outside the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon, waiting for the release of their many were disappointed the clemency appeared to do little for the hundreds of political prisoners thought to be held in the country, despite recent democratic reforms.

On Monday, President Thein Sein signed a clemency deal that would reduce the sentences of most inmates to mark the country's 64th anniversary of independence. Under the program, some death sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment. Prison terms above 30 years will be reduced to 30 years, and those between 20 and 30 years will be cut to 20 years. Shorter sentences will be cut by a quarter. Many activists and relatives of prisoners had hoped for amnesty instead of sentence reductions.緬甸星期二開始釋放囚犯，這是緬甸政府下令執行的寬恕行動的一部分。但是一些活動人士說，按照這項計劃能被釋放的政治犯人數還不夠。被押囚犯的數十名親屬星期二聚集在仰光惡名昭著的永盛監獄外，等候他們的親人得到釋放。外界認爲緬甸關押了數百名政治犯，儘管緬甸最近進行了民主改革，這項寬恕計劃對政治犯的影響很少，許多人對此感到失望。

星期一，緬甸總統吳登盛簽署寬恕令，紀念緬甸獨立64週年。根據這項命令， 大多數囚犯的刑期將被縮短。根據這個計劃，一些死刑將被減爲終身監禁。30年以上的刑期將被降低至30年；30年以下、20年以上的刑期將被降到20年；其餘更短的刑期將被縮減四分之一。許多活動人士和囚犯家屬本來期望的是大赦，而不僅是減刑。