Baptist church leader freed from prison in Myanmar.
A Baptist clergyman in Myanmar who was sentenced to six years in prison by the Asian nation's military government has been released after serving a year following international calls for his release.
The Rev. Hkalam Samson, the former president of the Kachin Baptist Convention, was released from prison earlier this month after serving about 16 months, according to an ethnic Kachin advocacy group.
Samson was sentenced to six years of prison last April under the Unlawful Association Act, the Penal Code and the Terrorism Act of Myanmar, a nation also known as Burma. CP.
