New Delhi, April 17 -- More than 4,500 prisoners in Myanmar have been granted amnesty and others have had their sentences reduced under a pardon order by President Min Aung Hlaing to mark the traditional new year, state-run media reported Friday.

The identities of those being released were not immediately available. Relatives and friends of prisoners waited outside the main gate at Insein Prison, in the northern outskirts of Yangon, since morning.

There was no sign former leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be freed or if the pardon would include the thousands of political detainees imprisoned for opposing military rule.

The amnesty comes a week after Min Aung Hlaing was sworn into office following an election that critics say was neither fr...