Panel okays release of 120 prisoners
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A special ministerial committee on Sunday decided to release 170 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli prisons. Of the group, 120 prisoners are members of Fatah and 50 were arrested for illegally residing within Israel.
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JERUSALEM Israel began releasing more than 130 Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday in a move aimed at easing overcrowding in its jails, security officials said.
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King Gyanendra of Nepal grants an amnesty to 12 women prisoners jailed for having abortions.
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Israeli officials approve a list of 250 Palestinian prisoners in its jails expected to be released on Friday.
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About 80 Afghan prisoners are repatriated after being freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay.
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Pakistani intelligence agencies have released nearly 100 suspected terrorists in an apparent effort to avoid acknowledging an elaborate secret detention system.
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Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners on Monday, in a move the Palestinian leadership welcomed while calling for the releases of thousands more who remain jailed.
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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of about 90 Palestinian prisoners, officials said, the latest move by Israel to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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More than 1,100 Muslims, detained in Thailand after a riot, were freed on Saturday as the government tried to ease anger in the country&#39;s restive south over the deaths of 78 accused rioters who perished in military custody.
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An Israeli ministerial committee has approved the release, which the Israeli Cabinet approved last week. It&#39;s part of a promise Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made to Egypt&#39;s president to win the freedom of an Israeli jailed by Egypt on espionage charges.
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Ministry reveals releases under government scheme to cut jail overcrowding
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Israel has agreed to release 170  Palestinian prisoners to show goodwill ahead of a Palestinian  election and as a gesture to Egypt for freeing a convicted  Israeli spy, officials said Sunday.
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YANGON - Myanmar&#39;s junta will release an additional 5,070 prisoners, bringing the total number of prisoners to be released to 14,318, state media reported Saturday.
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YANGON Hundreds of inmates were released from Myanmar&#39;s main prison Friday, witnesses said, a day after the military regime announced that it was expanding its prisoner release program to more than 9,000 people.
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Some 80 Afghans held as terror suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay have been released and flown back to Afghanistan, an Afghan court official said on Sunday.
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Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved the release of 500 Palestinian prisoners in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called a goodwill gesture to bolster new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and build mutual trust.
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The UN welcomes plans by the military government to free some 4,000 prisoners, including political detainees.