Thailand Releases 1,100 Muslim Detainees
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More than 1,100 Muslims detained after a riot were freed Saturday, as the government tried to ease anger in Thailand&#39;s restive south over the deaths of dozens of accused
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Hundreds of Pakistanis jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban were released from an Afghan prison Sunday &#151; a major gesture meant to better strained relations between the neighboring countries.
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About 1,000 die-hard supporters of Thailand's ousted prime minister demonstrated Thursday against a stunning court ruling that banned his party and barred its entire leadership from politics for five years.
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The judges were isolated and 1,000 police manned barricades around the court on Wednesday as Thais awaited rulings on whether major parties would be disbanded and their leaders banned from politics.
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Sixteen Saudi prisoners arrive in Riyadh after being released from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.
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One of 1,300 Thai Muslims detained after clashes with security forces described on Thursday how police and soldiers beat protesters before piling
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BANGKOK Thai military aircraft dropped 100 million paper birds over southern Thailand on Sunday in a gesture intended to promote peace in mainly Muslim provinces, where more than 500 people have died this year in attacks by separatist militants and
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The U.S. military has ordered three detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay to be freed and 25 others to remain as secret hearings were held into the cases of more terror suspects.
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A foreign national held under the government's emergency anti-terrorism powers since 2001 is being released.
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More than half those arrested on suspicion of terrorism since 2001 have been released without charge, figures show.
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PATTANI, Thailand -- At least 78 Muslim detainees suffocated or were crushed to death after police rounded up 1,300 people and packed them into trucks following a riot in southern Thailand. Islamic leaders accused troops yesterday of overreacting and warned the deaths could worsen sectarian violence.
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Burma&#39;s military government has announced the release of five-thousand detainees, in a third mass release in less than a month.
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A hundred jailed Muslim extremists, including some who allegedly fought for al-Qaida in Iraq, were released by authorities, a Yemeni security official said.
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YANGON: All 9,248 Myanmar prison inmates promised freedom under the military government&#39;s mass release programme have been let out of jail, said a prison department source on Saturday.
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on bail listen as Thai army and police officials give a press conference at the Thaksin Palace in Narathiwat, southern Thailand, November 1, 2004.
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Thailand's new military rulers got their first taste of popular dissent Friday when about 100 protesters defied a ban on public gatherings to denounce the army's coup this week as undemocratic.
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The Thai military frees up some political parties, while banning the most popular one.