Chiang Mai ( Mizzima ) – Forty-six Burmese political prisoners were included in a batch of more than 400 prisoners released from Obo Prison in Mandalay on Wednesday. The comedian Zarganar arrives in Rangoon airport after being freed from prison under a presidential amnesty. Photo: AFP Myo Naing, a National League for Democracy division-level organizer, said nine Buddhist monks, one former military intelligence officer, one former captain, two prisoners convicted of bombings, 13 prisoners convicted of religious riots in Kyaukse and five NLD members are among the freed political prisoners. The imprisoned Burmese comedian Zarganar was released from Myitkyina Prison on Wednesday morning and was in route to Rangoon by air, according to Zarganar’s sister-in-law Ma Nyein. Zarganar (aka) Thura was serving 35 years in prison. “He is in good health,” Ma Nyein told Mizzima . “He said he could not say anything, and told me to greet everyone [on his behalf].” Zarganar was arrested in 2