Release of female prisoners demanded
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers threatened in a videotape yesterday to slit the throats of three civilians â-wo Americans and a Briton â -ess authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons in Iraq.
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British officials want two girls suspected of drug smuggling in Africa moved to a more suitable prison.
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The families of five British men taken prisoner in Iraq in May have appealed to their captors to release them.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Two Iraqi officials said yesterday that the government is planning to release one of two female scientists being held prisoner for working on Saddam Hussein&#39;s chemical weapons program.
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Bangladesh's two main political parties have demanded the release of their leaders, Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia, saying the move was necessary to ensure a free and fair election expected late next year.
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Hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners, Aljazeera has reported.
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The Polish woman held hostage in Iraq appeared in a new video, aired on Al-Jazeera satellite channel, pleading her nation to withdraw troops from the country and the release of women prisoners to save her life.
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Kidnappers threatening to kill a Northern Irish woman in Afghanistan were today awaiting a response to their demand for a prisoner exchange.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Chanting "Yes to Palestinian unity", some 200 Palestinian women marched in Ramallah on Saturday to urge President Mahmoud Abbas to release Hamas supporters from West Bank jails.
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Nine foreign terror suspects who have been held in British prisons without charge for nearly three years began an appeal for their release in a direct challenge to the Government&#39;s emergency anti-terrorism legislation.
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The Government must act swiftly to either charge or release the nine detainees who are being held on suspicion of links with terrorism, civil liberties campaigners said today.
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Two high-profile women prisoners in American custody will not be released immediately, the US embassy said in Baghdad, despite an earlier announcement by Iraqi authorities.
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The United Nations appealed Thursday to the Taliban-linked kidnappers of three of its staff in Afghanistan to release them in time for a Muslim festival starting this weekend.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Jazeera television has broadcast a tape of hostage Margaret Hassan pleading for the release of female prisoners in Iraq and the withdrawal of British troops.
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The regime in an NI prison constitutes the abuse of female prisoners' human rights, a report says.
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PESHAWAR: The Jaishul Muslimeen on Wednesday said it had agreed to an Afghan government request to give it more time to locate the 26 prisoners whose release has been demanded in return for the freedom of the three UN hostages.
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Militants linked to wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have threatened to kill three Western hostages unless the United States releases female prisoners from two Iraqi jails within 48 hours.