Kenyan judge frees sect leader
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A leader of a banned Kenyan sect is freed by a judge, days after gruesome killings were blamed on the group.
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Leading Hindu cleric Jayendra Saraswathi who faces murder charges is freed after two months in prison.
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A former Unitarian minister was freed from jail Friday after a federal magistrate ruled he cannot be extradited to Ireland to face trial for his role in a Dublin woman's 2002 suicide.
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A corruption case in Malaysia ends with a top executive going free after a court dismisses charges against him.
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President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner amid riots in Kenyaâs slums and evidence of election mischief.
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An Egyptian terror suspect, held by  Britain for three years without trial because he was said to be  the leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant group, has been  released from prison, the government said on Tuesday.
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The two-year-old son of a Nigerian chief is freed, as oil militants hold talks with the government.
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An 81-year-old Rwandan pastor found guilty of genocide is released after serving his sentence.
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PRETORIA -- A judge yesterday acquitted Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason charges in a Harare courtroom, surprising even the defendant, who expected a conviction orchestrated by the government of President Robert Mugabe.
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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia  - Malaysia's highest court  freed rebel politician Anwar Ibrahim from almost six years in  jail on Thursday, overturning his conviction for sodomy in a  shock ruling expected to win support for the new prime  minister.
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Kenyan government forces withdrawal of key South African mediator from talks with opposition
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Nigeria's top labour leader, Adams Oshiomhole, has been released following his arrest by secret police, a spokesman for his Nigeria Labour Congress said on the eve of a nationwide general strike.
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The family of a Kenyan suspected of involvement in attacks on Israeli interests in the east African country in 2002 sued in Kenya's High Court on Thursday for his release from Guantanamo Bay military prison.
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A Yemeni court sentenced a newspaper editor to one year in jail and shut his publication for reprinting offensive cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, but the attorney general freed the journalist.
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The ex-leader of Kenya's outlawed Mungiki sect is sent to prison, amid hysterical scenes from his two wives.
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The only Indonesian jailed for abuses during East Timor's violence-marred independence vote has been cleared on appeal in a move that has angered rights groups and embarrassed the Jakarta government.
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A Muslim cleric freed from prison in Egypt  on Sunday four years after he was grabbed in a Milan street in  a suspected CIA kidnapping said on Monday the ordeal had made  him a wreck.