Five Americans who were jailed in Iran will be released on September 18 as part of a broader agreement between the US and Iran, CNN reports. The US government declared all five Americans were wrongfully detained. Four Americans - Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi, Morad...
Chicago resident Kevin Dugar, 44, who spent almost two decades behind bars for murder in 2003, has been released after his identical twin confessed to the crime, NBC reports. An emotional Kevin Dugar burst into tears as he was released and reunited...
The FSB of Russia has declassified unique materials about the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Basically, these are protocols of interrogations of former guards, which tell about the horrors experienced by the prisoners of the death camp, writes the Rubaltic edition. Among the documents are the diagrams of the gas chambers, descriptions of how prisoners were treated, information ...
In South Carolina, 10 prisoners were mistakenly released early over the course of two years due to errors in the calculation of the terms of their sentences. This statement was made by the state Department of Corrections. According to officials, only six were returned to prison.…
North Korea released three detained American citizens on May 9 as a gesture of goodwill towards the United States ahead of a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and American President Donald Trump. Trump announced the release of prisoners on his microblog...
Wikileaks informant Chelsea Manning was released after serving 7 of the 35 years in prison, to which she was originally sentenced. She was convicted for issuing over 2010 secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in 700, which ...
Russian Denis Davydov, who was arrested by the immigration service in March 2017, has been released. According to Denis’s close friend, Sergei Piskunov, Davydov was released on April 27. “This was made possible thanks to the support of the media and the administration of the leader of the minority faction in the House...
An American woman of Egyptian origin, detained in Egypt almost 3 years ago on charges of human trafficking, was flown to the United States on an American military aircraft, accompanied by a senior White House official, Voice of America reports, citing the US presidential administration. Last Sunday, the Cairo court...
In Libya, 13 Ukrainian doctors who were held by the extremist group “Islamic State” were released. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin said that the doctors were transported to the Libyan city of Ben Jawad. “We are in constant contact with them,” the Foreign Minister noted on Twitter.…
Israeli officials expect Jonathan Pollard, convicted in the United States in 1987 for spying for Israel, to be released soon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the US to allow Pollard to return to Israel and not stay for five ...