An Activist for North Koreans Wins Release
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A Seattle pastor has been convicted -- and deported -- from a Chinese jail for moving people out of North Korea
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Convicted loyalist leader Johnny Adair has been released from prison in Northern Ireland.
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- South Korean negotiators and Taliban leaders have reached an agreement that will allow for the release of 19 hostages from a South Korean church who have been held captive by Afghan insurgents for nearly six weeks, officials in Afghanistan said Tuesday.
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A militant group said Thursday it had released a Canadian hostage, claiming that her company had met its demand to withdraw from Iraq.
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US journalist Paul Salopek, arrested in the Darfur region of Sudan, is released after 35 days.
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A U.S. magistrate ordered the alleged ringleader of a plot to overthrow the communist government of Laos released on bail Thursday, allowing him to return home under strict conditions.
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The highest-ranking jailed member of Colombia's main guerrilla group was freed by the government Monday as part of a wider prisoner release intended to help secure the freedom of 60 hostages &#151; including three Americans &#151; held by the guerrillas.
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A foreign national held under the government's emergency anti-terrorism powers since 2001 is being released.
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Online donations do the trick for Nazanin Fatehi Well done to all those Reg readers who donated cash to the campaign to release Iranian teenager Nazanin Fatehi, who secured her freedom on Wednesday.â¦
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An Iranian-American academic has been released from detention in Tehran's Evin prison after being held since May, the Open Society Institute said on Wednesday.
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A Pakistani court Wednesday ordered the release of the husband of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, accepting his application for bail a day after he was arrested for failing to attend a court hearing.
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NEGOTIATORS claim to have secured a deal to free Annetta Flanigan, the kidnapped United Nations official, and her two colleagues in Afghanistan.
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An Israeli ministerial committee has approved the release, which the Israeli Cabinet approved last week. It&#39;s part of a promise Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made to Egypt&#39;s president to win the freedom of an Israeli jailed by Egypt on espionage charges.
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Authorities on Saturday released a lawyer who was on a U.S. list of activists detained this year by Vietnam, two days before President Nguyen Minh Triet goes to the United States on a state visit.
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Iranian-Canadian intellectual and author Ramin Jahanbegloo is freed after nearly four months in custody, agencies report.
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A former US Army sergeant who defected to North Korea almost 40 years ago - has been released after serving 25 days in military detention in Japan.