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155 detained loggers arrive at China-Myanmar border

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2015-07-31 08:37CRIENGLISH.com Editor: Wang Fan

A group of 155 Chinese jailed for illegal logging in Myanmar has arrived at the China-Myanmar border following a massive amnesty announced by the Myanmar government on Thursday.

Media reports revealed that the hand-over process has already finished and the group will be sent back home from the border town in Yunnan.

The group is among 7-thousand prisoners released by the Myanmar government under the amnesty.

The Chinese nationals were detained earlier this year and handed lengthy prison terms just over a week ago.

Many were given 20-year prison sentences under a decades-old law in Myanmar connected to the destruction of public property.

The stiff sentences for the loggers prompted official complaints from the Chinese government.

  

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