Accused intellectual freed from prison
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TEHRAN -- Iran yesterday released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the United States to overthrow the government, a human rights activist said. Ramin Jahanbegloo was released from Evin prison after four months of confinement, said Kouhyar Goodarzi, a member of the Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters of Iran. Jahanbegloo was arrested in April but ...
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has released from jail peace activist Ali Shakeri, the last of four Iranian-Americans imprisoned in recent months after being accused of stirring up a revolution, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.
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A man who spent 18 years in prison on a rape charge walked out of court Tuesday a free man, exonerated by DNA evidence.
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A foreign terror suspect held in the UK without trial or charge since December 2001 is released from prison.
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A man wrongly jailed for 18 years in a child rape case was released from prison Tuesday after new DNA testing cleared him of the crime.
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An Iranian-American academic detained in Iran will be freed soon on bail, the judge in charge of his case said on Tuesday.
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Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune was released from jail Thursday, more than two years after his arrest on charges of orchestrating the killing of political opponents at the start of a rebellion that engulfed the country.
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An Australian who became the first person convicted at an American war crimes trial since World War II was freed from prison on Saturday, after completing his U.S. imposed sentence.
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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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Cuba frees Hector Palacios, a dissident charged with conspiracy during a wave of arrests in 2003.
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An Israeli businessman who spent eight years in an Egyptian jail after being accused of espionage was released Sunday as part of an agreement between the two countries.
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An octogenarian cleric jailed for 10 years by a UN court for Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been released, becoming the tribunal's first convict to be freed after serving his sentence.
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Yangon: Myanmar&#39;s junta has freed the nation&#39;s number two political prisoner as part of a release of 4,000 inmates, as analysts questioned the gesture&#39;s potential impact on democratic reform in the military-ruled state.
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With no apologies and asking for privacy, David Matthew Hicks, who was convicted of terrorist activities in March, was freed from prison
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Genarlow Wilson walked out of prison a free man on Friday, thanks to an extraordinary intervention by the Georgia Supreme Court.
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A court has ruled that a former member of the left-wing extremist Red Army Faction which terrorised Germany in the 1970s will be released from jail.
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Former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks is released from prison in Australia after completing his term.