Maldives opposition leader freed
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Senior Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed is freed from house arrest.
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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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The husband of Pakistani opposition  leader Benazir Bhutto was freed on Wednesday, a day after his  re-arrest looked to have dimmed hopes for reconciliation with  military ruler President Pervez Musharraf.
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KARACHI: The husband of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was freed yesterday, a day after his re-arrest looked to have dimmed hopes for reconciliation with military ruler President Pervez Musharraf.
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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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Hamas's top leader in the West Bank was released from an Israeli prison Thursday after completing a two-year sentence, potentially bolstering the Palestinian militant group's standing in the West Bank.
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A Taleban commander who led attacks on British troops says he was freed from an Afghan prison after paying a bribe.
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In an unexpected ruling on September 2, the Malaysian Federal Court, the nationâs highest judicial body, freed former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim after overturning his conviction on a charge of sodomy.
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The husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was released from detention on bail on Monday in a move that could improve relations between the country's military leader and one of its main parties.
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A US man jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans is freed, officials say.
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Indonesian police say they have arrested the alleged leader of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.
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Police arrested 20 opposition party supporters during the Maldives' parliamentary election Saturday, a vote critics denounced as rigged, accusing the government of linking aid for tsunami survivors to favorable votes.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken on Thursday from her villa and de facto prison of the last four years to a state guesthouse where she has previously met foreign diplomats, her party and sources said.
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ISLAMABAD, Nov 22  - The husband of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, jailed on corruption charges in 1996, has been released after Supreme Court granted him bail, an official said Monday.
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Most of the 33 Iranian women activists arrested earlier in the week in Tehran have been freed from jail.
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Several members of Burma's opposition NLD are freed from jail in a move linked to a  power struggle in the military.
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The president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has escaped an assassination attempt, a presidential spokesman said.