Restrictions around Suu Kyi intact

Families of political dissidents faced an anxious wait after one opposition MP expected to have been released was told he faced an additional 60 days in prison, according to his family.

Myanmar's military leaders on Thursday ordered the release of nearly 4,000 inmates they say may have been wrongly imprisoned by a now-dissolved military intelligence unit. The opposition said red tape meant the process could take a week.

Only several hundred have so far been released, among them a couple of dozen dissidents including the leader of 1988 student protests, Min Ko Naing, the country's number two political prisoner after Aung San Suu Kyi.

Media on Monday gathered close to the home of the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) amid widespread rumours of her release from house arrest but security remained at normal levels, according to an AFP correspondent.