King frees convicted activist in Bahrain
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Bahrain's king ordered the immediate release of a human rights activist who was convicted of inciting hatred of the government and sentenced to one year in prison yesterday in a case linked to criticism of the prime minister.
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Security forces conducted sweeps through Shiite villages in Bahrain on Saturday, arresting several protesters involved in a week of demonstrations against the Sunni-led government, witnesses and opposition groups said.
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Bollywood actor Salman Khan, walked free from a city jail on August 31, after spending a week behind bars to an enthusiastic welcome from hundreds of his fans, who had gathered outside the prison to greet him. He left for Mumbai in the evening.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.
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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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A British national held in detention in Pakistan without charge for more than a year is released, Human Rights Watch says.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of a gang-rape whose sentencing to 200 lashes caused an international outcry, officials said on Monday.
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A suspect Bahraini militant escapes from court, but gives himself up an hour later, his lawyer says.
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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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Nepal frees seven political leaders but arrests activists demonstrating against  the king.
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Bollywood star Salman Khan is released from a Rajasthan jail almost a week after he was sent to prison for poaching.
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Burma's military regime said today it had freed the country's leading comedian and a revered actor and his wife who were arrested in mass detentions immediately after the outbreak of pro-democracy protests sparked a bloody crackdown.
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MANAMA: A Bahraini man has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, the family&#39;s lawyer told AFP yesterday. &quot;Mohamad Khan was arrested by Saudi authorities at about 10pm on Saturday after crossing the King Fahad Causeway,&quot; said Abdullah Hashim.
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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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One of Myanmar&#39;s best known and longest-imprisoned political dissidents has been freed as part of a general release of almost 4,000 prisoners granted by the country&#39;s ruling junta, a family member confirmed Saturday.
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Bahrain has yesterday desolved the &quot;Bahrain center for human rights&quot; just days after detaining the deputy chairman of the center Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja over his criticism of the prime minister in a development which was deplored by Arab human rights
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WASHINGTON -- Yaser Esam Hamdi, the US citizen and ''enemy combatant&quot; whose imprisonment without charges by the Bush administration for nearly three years led to a historic Supreme Court decision this summer, will be freed under an agreement with the Justice Department.