US journalist released from jail in Darfur
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Journalist Paul Salopek arrived in the   Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday after being freed from   jail in the Darfur region where he had been charged with   espionage and publishing false information.
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An American convicted of running a private prison in Afghanistan as part of a freelance hunt for terrorists left the country late Saturday following his release from an Afghan jail, officials said.
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A political prisoner who was jailed for 15 years on charges of terrorism in Moldova's separatist state of Trans-Dniester was released Saturday after serving his term.
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A senior aide to rebel Iraqi cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr was released from U.S. detention on Thursday,  an aide to Sadr, Sheikh Mahmoud Sudani, said.
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Kidnapped US journalist Micah Garen has been released Sunday to government officials in the southern city of Nasiriyah. Reports say the release came four days after radical Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr started negotiations with the kidnappers.
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Hotel heiress and socialite Paris Hilton has been released from prison after serving only three days of her 23-day sentence, US media reported Thursday.
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US journalist Micah Garen, who was kidnapped Aug. 13 in the southern city of Nasiriyah, was released along with his Iraqi translator after anti-American cleric
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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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A veteran Hong Kong reporter jailed in China for espionage activities has been freed, local radio station RTHK reported on its website.
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US Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins, who pleaded guilty to desertion after spending 40 years in North Korea and served less than a month in a military jail, was released early Saturday.
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As fighting flared up between US troops and militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, a US journalist kidnapped since August 13 was released in good health.
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TOKYO -- US Army deserter Charles Jenkins has been released from military jail after serving 25 days for abandoning his squadron in 1965 and defecting to North Korea where he was held for 39 years.
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A young Turkish journalist, Zeynep Tugrul, was freed last week by kidnappers in northern Iraq after four days of terror and hope.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was released in Gaza City early Wednesday after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his extremist abductors.
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A senior member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas has been released from an Israeli prison after completing a two-year sentence.
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A Chinese journalist for the New York Times is freed after spending almost three years in jail in China.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was freed early Wednesday in Gaza City, the Islamist movement Hamas said.