ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia will release 746 more prisoners, including a journalist and a senior opposition official who were jailed for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts, the attorney general’s office said Thursday.

The decision follows a series of changes announced by the government to try to reduce tension in Ethiopia, which has been hit by unrest since 2015.

Nearly 6,000 prisoners have been freed since January. Most were detained in connection with mass protests that broke out three years ago in the country’s Oromia and Amhara regions, where people have complained that they have been neglected by the central government and victimized by land grabbing.

On Thursday, the attorney general’s office published a list of 746 inmates for pardon, including the journalist Eskinder Nega and the opposition politician Andualem Arage.