rioters freed in Thailand
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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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Burma&#39;s military junta has freed a top dissident - second only to Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi - as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand - Hundreds of Muslim men were freed in southern Thailand on Saturday after being detained last week in the wake of protests that left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide.
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At least two Myanmar dissidents were among thousands of prisoners freed after the military government announced it had begun releasing more than 5,000 detainees in a third mass release in less than a month, relatives and officials said.
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Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is free to return from exile as soon as he wants to challenge graft allegations against him, as well as the seizure of $1.5 billion in assets, his successor said on Tuesday.
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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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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian special forces on Tuesday  freed 20 foreign tourists who were briefly taken hostage by  protesting coca growers in an Inca temple in the southern city  of Cuzco, police said.
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The Thai military frees up some political parties, while banning the most popular one.
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PATTANI, Thailand, 27 October 2004 - At least 78 Muslims were suffocated or crushed to death after being arrested and packed into trucks by security forces following a riot in Muslim-dominated southern Thailand, officials said yesterday.
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Rioting inmates at an Argentine jail release dozens of hostages as the authorities regain control, police say.
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A Thai plaincloth police officer, left, tie the arms of an ethnic Thai Muslim rioter as others lie on the ground after dispersing them at Takbai district of Narathiwat province, southern Thailand Monday, Oct. 25, 2004.
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Burma&#39;s military junta has freed prominent political prisoners during a mass release of four thousand detainees. He is a high-profile aide to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest.
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Armagh woman Annetta Flanigan and her two fellow hostages, from Kosova and the Philippines, were freed on Tuesday in circumstances which have yet to become clear.
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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.
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Thailand&#39;s prime minister announced yesterday that hundreds of Muslims detained after a riot in the country&#39;s restive south would be freed, in a bid to ease tensions over the deaths of 85 accused rioters - including 78 who died in military custody.
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Leaders of ThailandÂs armed forces seized control of Bangkok, suspended the constitution and declared martial law on Tuesday.
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Burma's ruling junta frees about 500 more prisoners, and says it will release veteran dissident Win Tin.