In Burma, the military junta has released its longest-serving political prisoner, Win Tin. The seventy-nine-year-old journalist has spent the last nineteen years in prison. He was arrested in 1989 for sheltering a young woman said to have received an illegal abortion. He was given additional jail time for openly criticizing the junta. Shortly after his release, Win Tin said he would continue to oppose the junta and fight for restoring democracy in Burma.