A human rights group urges the UAE government to release a number of political prisoners, who were jailed during the country's infamous "UAE 94" trial.

A senior leader of Hamas says the issue of Palestinian prisoners being kept in Israeli jails is a top priority for the people of Palestine, stressing that the resistance movement will force Israel to free the detainees.

India censures the Myanmarese military's violent crackdown on peaceful protesters, calling for the release of political detainees and for democracy to be restored in the Southeast Asian country.

Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul is released from prison after nearly three years behind bars.

Nigeria’s Takfiri terrorist group of Boko Haram releases more than 300 schoolboys less than a week after kidnapping them from a northern state.

China says India has released a Chinese soldier who had been detained along their disputed Himalayan border, where the two sides have been locked in a tense standoff in recent months.

US-backed and Kurdish-led SDF forces controlling northeast Syria free more than 600 prisoners detained over links to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

Jordanian authorities release prominent cartoonist Emad al-Hajjaj who was arrested for publishing a cartoon critical of the recent Israel-UAE deal to normalize full diplomatic ties.

Russia urges Belarus to immediately release 33 Russian private security contractors detained on terrorism charges, dismissing the accusations against them as bogus.

The lawyers of jailed Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky have called for the dismissal of the case against him and his wife as well as their immediate release from the Nigerian government's captivity.