Stories from people freed from Saydnaya torture prison
BBCIt was a defining moment of the fall of the Syrian regime - rebels freeing inmates from the country's most notorious prison. A week on,…
American Travis Timmerman found in Damascus after being freed from Syrian prison
Travis Timmerman, a missing American from Missouri, was freed from a Syrian prison and found Thursday outside of Damascus, trying to make his way out…
‘A number not a name’: In Syria, freed prisoners recall horrors of the past | Syria’s War News
Idlib, Syria – “My name was number 1100,” Hala said, still fearful of being identified by her real name. Hala is one of the thousands…
DR Congo Forces Hand Over 40 Freed Captives to UN Peacekeepers
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, Nov. 30, freed and delivered over 40 locals captured by the Allied Democratic Forces…
Israeli PM Netanyahu offers $5m reward for captives freed from Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu offers big cash reward and safe way out of war-torn Gaza as inducement to free Israeli captives.Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said…
Jailed Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi freed after presidential pardon | Freedom of the Press News
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune pardons 4,000 detainees to mark 70th anniversary of the independence war with France.Prominent Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi has been freed by…
Maduro ally freed in US prisoner exchange joins government cabinet | Nicolas Maduro News
Colombian businessman Alex Saab will become new industry minister, in latest cabinet change since contested election.Alex Saab, an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro freed…
Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout back in business: Report | Weapons News
Viktor Bout, dubbed the ‘merchant of death’, was exchanged two years ago for US basketball star Brittney Griner.Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer who was…
Kim Kardashian wants the Menendez brothers to be freed
Kim Kardashian wants Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers convicted in the grisly 1989 murders of their parents, to be freed.The reality star, daughter of…
New Zealand pilot freed by Indonesian separatists after 19 months in captivity
1 of 2 | New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens and an Indonesian police officer talk Saturday after Papua separatists released him following more than 19…
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens freed by Papua rebels after 19 months | Conflict News
Indonesian police say Mehrtens has been flown out of mountainous Nduga and appears in good health.New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed by rebels…
Putin must not win the Ukraine war, freed Russian dissident Kara-Murza says | Russia-Ukraine war News
Kara-Murza defends prisoner swaps, saying it’s crucial to secure the release of more political detainees in Russia.Western governments and Russia’s exiled opposition should begin laying…
Offender freed from prison under early release scheme ‘sexually assaulted woman inside an hour’
AN offender who was freed from prison under the Government’s early release scheme allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside an hour.Amari Ward, 31, got out…
Police say 20 abducted Nigerian medical students freed | Crime News
The students were on their way to a convention in Benue State when they were kidnapped by gunmen.Twenty Nigerian medical students who were kidnapped on…
Freed Nigerian Medical Students Reunite With Families After Week-Long Captivity
Twenty medical students, including a house officer, have been freed after being held captive for over a week. The group was kidnapped along the Otukpo-Enugu…
Who was freed in biggest Russia-West prisoner swap since the Cold War? | Politics News
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been freed as part of the biggest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War.…
Russia’s FSB releases video of moment prisoners are freed in swap | Russia-Ukraine war
NewsFeedVideo released by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) shows prisoners being loaded onto a waiting plane for transport to Turkey as part of a massive…
‘Their brutal ordeal is over’: Biden praises prisoners freed from Russia | Russia-Ukraine war
NewsFeedUS President Joe Biden gathered with family members of prisoners just freed in one of the largest prisoner swaps between Russia and Western countries. The…
Biden: Americans held in Russia including Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan freed in prisoner swap
1 of 2 | Multiple media reports Thursday said a prisoner swap is underway to free Americans held by Russia. CBS News reported that Wall…
Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel say they were tortured, threatened | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Two women and six men were released from Ofer Prison and were taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.Eight Palestinian…