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Myanmar's Win Tin vows to continue democracy fight

YANGON
Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:48am EDT

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner, journalist Win Tin, vowed Tuesday to continue his struggle against 46 years of military rule only moments after his release from a 19-year sentence.

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"I will keep fighting until the emergence of democracy in this country," he told reporters outside a friend's house. He was still wearing his light-blue prison clothes.

(Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Darren Schuettler)
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