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4 weeks 5 hours ago - Egypt

Egypt is releasing around 3,000 prisoners on the orders of the country's military ruler to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, officials have said.

Security officials told AFP news agency on Wednesday that 1,959 prisoners were being released after they were pardoned by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi on Saturday.

"Another 1,014 charged with criminal acts are also in the process of being released early for good behaviour," one official said.

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4 weeks 4 days ago - Egypt

Maikel Nabil, a prominent blogger, is among those due to be released, according to that order from SCAF chief Hussein Tantawi.

He was serving a two-year sentence for "insulting the military".

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4 weeks 4 days ago - Egypt

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of SCAF, has signed an order for the release of 1,959 detainees who were tried and convicted in military courts for crimes related to anti-government protests.  

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4 weeks 5 days ago - Syria

Syrian activists have called for Friday protests across Syria to express support for the thousands of prisoners who are being held since the start of the uprising against Assad. [DPA]

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18 weeks 5 days ago - Gaza

Israel has agreed to release 1,027 Palestinian political prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli army soldier captured by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas in 2006.

However, thousands of Palestinians remain incarcerated in Israeli prisons.

In June, Israeli PM Binyamin Natanyahu announced tougher restrictions on Palestinian prisoners. These restrictions include limited access to books and clothes, as well as expanded periods of solitary confinement.

To protest against the restrictions, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have gone on hunger strike. Recently, Palestinians living in the occupied territories have joined the protest.

Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports from Ramallah.

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25 weeks 3 days ago - Libya

 

AFP - More than 10,000 prisoners have been freed from Gaddafi's  jails since the fall of Tripoli but almost 50,000 others are still missing, the Libyan rebels' military spokesman said.

"The number of people arrested over the past months is estimated at between 57,000 and 60,000," Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi.

"Between 10,000 and 11,000 prisoners have been freed up until now ... so where are the others?" he asked.

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26 weeks 3 days ago - Libya

A resident of the Tajoura neighbourhood in Tripoli tells Al Jazeera that around 450 prisoners were freed from a military base after residents took control of the area and pushed out Gaddafi forces, who are currently shelling the neighborhood. The prisoners are in poor health, he said.

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