Opposition lodges legal challenge to free jailed members

Nov 25 (AFP) - The Myanmar opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi has launched a legal challenge against the imprisonment of four party members despite a promise by the military regime to release nearly 4,000 inmates, a party legal adviser said Thursday.

The four were jailed for seven years in September for distributing National League for Democracy (NLD) party material to the town of Mae Sot across the border in Thailand, lawyer Nyan Win told AFP.

"Although we and their family members have been expecting that they could be released... we will continue to do our job for our members," he said. An appeal was lodged with a Yangon court on Wednesday.

Lawyer Tin Myint, 58, San Ya, 38, Than Than Htay, 48, and Yi Yi Win, 45, were all jailed after being convicted based on allegations from members of Myanmar's military intelligence.

Mynamar's junta last week ordered the release of 3,937 people whom it said may have been wrongly imprisoned by military intelligence. But so far only several hundred have been released, including fewer then 30 members of the opposition.

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