WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers and 30 human rights groups on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to use a weekend summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping to press for the freedom of 16 prominent political and religious prisoners. The "... [Full Article]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudanese officials say the government has released seven political prisoners, including a female politician, under an amnesty declared by President Omar al-Bashir. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (AP) - A Palestinian group says hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails are refusing food for one day in solidarity with four other inmates who are on hunger strike. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - Palestinians blocked roads and held marches across the West Bank on Monday to protest the fate of thousands of their countrymen held in Israeli jails and demand the release of four detainees on hunger strike. (Source: Asso... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian rebels stormed a government intelligence complex in the oil-rich east of the country on Tuesday, freeing at least 11 people held in a prison at the facility, activists said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan authorities are still torturing prisoners, such as hanging them by their wrists and beating them with cables, the United Nations said, a year after it first documented the abuse and won government promises of detentio... [Full Article]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The United Nations said Sunday that Afghan authorities were still torturing prisoners, such as hanging them by their wrists and beating them with cables, a year after the U.N. first documented the abuse and the Afghan govern... [Full Article]
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Nearly 200 people considered political prisoners by Georgia's new parliament walked free Sunday under an amnesty strongly opposed by President Mikhail Saakashvili. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian state media says 48 former captives have returned to Tehran after being freed by Syrian rebels in the first major prisoner swap of the civil war. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Pakistan agreed on Friday to free more Taliban prisoners in the future, a move considered a key step to coaxing the militant group into peace negotiations to end the 11-year-old war in Afghanistan. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
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