Prisoners freed early are returning to jail at rapid rate, governors tell BBC
PM Andy Burnham on Sunday announced changes to the next early release scheme - scheduled to start in October - which mean PC Harper's killers will sta...
American missionary kidnapped in Niger freed after 9 months in captivity
Kevin Rideout, who was abducted by unknown assailants in Niamey, said to be in good health and in care of US officialsAn American missionary who was k...
Ex-Marine Robert Gilman Is Freed by Russia After 4 Years in Prison
The Kremlin released Robert Gilman, whose family and an advocacy group had said he was in dire physical condition, on “a humanitarian basis,” Presiden...
Pastor freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release
A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Tr...
Freed Rochdale grooming gang leader was judged ‘high risk’ to children in 2023
Exclusive: Shabir Ahmed, jailed in 2012 for rape, abuse and trafficking of girls, was deemed three years ago to present ‘high risk of sexual offending...
Four more men freed from flooded Laos cave in hazardous rescue mission
Two still missing as divers make their way deeper into cave through muddy water and sharp rocks to find themFour more miners who were trapped in a flo...
Alexandros Giotopoulos of November 17, Greek Militant Group, Is Freed
The release of Alexandros Giotopoulos was denounced by relatives of people killed by November 17, a Greek far-left group that was active between 1975 ...
Oklahoma’s Richard Glossip freed on bond after 30 years on death row
A judge set a $500,000 bond in the 1997 murder case headed for retrial after a supreme court decisionSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email...
Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from prison in Belarus in US-brokered swap deal
Sakharov prize winner was given eight-year sentence after process widely condemned as politically motivatedThe Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Po...
