American journalist Danny Fenster who was facing an 11-year hard labor sentence in military-ruled Burma has been released from jail on Monday after being detained for nearly six months. Fenster’s release came after negotiations between the country’s ruling military junta and former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who was on a humanitarian visit to the Southeast Asian country, which is also known as Myanmar. “Danny’s release was secured following a private humanitarian visit by Governor Richardson to Myanmar and face-to-face negotiations with General Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s Commander in Chief,” the Richardson Center, a nonprofit organization supporting the former New Mexico governor, said in a Twitter statement. Fenster and Richardson’s team will be flying back to the United States via Qatar over the next day and a half, it added. The organization also posted a picture on Twitter showing the two together about to board a plane. “This is the day …
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