Chinese Journalist Freed From Prison
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BEIJING, Sept. 15 -- A jailed researcher for the New York Times was released in Beijing at about 8:15 a.m. Saturday after serving a three-year sentence for accepting money from a source, a charge he denies.
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American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges.
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China on Tuesday freed a Hong Kong-based reporter for a Singaporean newspaper jailed for five years for spying for Taiwan after intense lobbying from activists and politicians for clemency ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
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China's Foreign Ministry announced Sunday that nine Chinese oil workers who were kidnapped last month in Nigeria had been released unharmed by their captors.
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Hong Kong media reported Tuesday that journalist Ching Cheong, who was jailed in mainland China on spying charges, has been released and will return to Hong Kong
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A Chinese court jailed a reporter for   a Singapore newspaper for five years on Thursday for spying,   the latest in a series of high-profile cases illustrating   China's curbs on the media and dissent.
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A dissident who led the 1988 student protests in Burma is freed, as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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A French journalist abducted by Somali gunmen was released Monday, a regional police commissioner said.
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Burma&#39;s military dictators have freed a top dissident - second only to democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi - after 16 years in jail.
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An Iranian-American academic has been released from detention in Tehran's Evin prison after being held since May, the Open Society Institute said on Wednesday.
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A US man jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans is freed, officials say.
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The BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston is freed from kidnappers after almost four months in captivity.
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A Chinese journalist serving a 10-year jail sentence for allegedly leaking state secrets has been awarded a press freedom prize, the World Association of Newspapers said Tuesday.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza Strip, setting him free after 114 days of captivity.
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Cuba&#39;s communist government freed dissident writer Raul Rivero from prison Tuesday, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island&#39;s human rights record.
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Eight Chinese workers taken hostage by  guerrillas in Iraq earlier this month have been freed, and  located by Chinese embassy staff in Baghdad, the embassy said  Sunday.
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Journalist held hostage in Gaza Strip since March, has been released, BBC confirms.