Myanmar junta releases hundreds of coup protesters

Myanmar's state TV said 628 people imprisoned for protesting last month's coup were released on Wednesday.

It's the first apparent gesture by the military to try to placate the protest movement.

Witnesses outside Insein Prison in Yangon on Wednesday saw busloads of mostly young people, looking happy with some flashing the three-finger gesture of defiance adopted by protesters.

The prisoners appear to be the hundreds of students detained in early March while demonstrating against the Feb. 1 coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.