Myanmar’s longest-serving political prisoner, journalist Win Tin, was freed Tuesday after 19 years behind bars and vowed to continue his struggle to achieve democracy in the military-ruled...

An Afghan journalist detained for 11 months at the U.S. military base at Bagram alleged on Monday that his captors kicked him, forced him to stand barefoot in the snow and didn’t allow him to sleep for...

The U.S. military said Monday that it has freed an Afghan journalist held as an “enemy combatant” at the main American base in Afghanistan.

A St. Louis man released from prison after a judge overturned his 1984 murder conviction says he hopes his case will help other innocent people who are behind bars.

A man convicted in a 1984 gas-station killing has been freed from prison by a judge who ruled his capital murder trial was unconstitutionally flawed.

The United Nations has criticized Afghanistan’s government for freeing two men convicted of raping a woman in northern Afghanistan after they served only a portion of their 11-year...

The Hamas militant group released a Palestinian cameraman for German TV on Thursday, and the broadcaster said the 42-year-old man was tortured during his five days in...

Zimbabwe’s opposition says 14 of its members have been freed after being cleared of charges of committing political violence.The Movement for Democratic Change says the activists were acquitted Monday after the state failed to produce its key...

The Rev. Phillip Miles thought he had the perfect gift when he decided to buy some hunting rifle ammunition for a fellow pastor he would visit. He had already picked out lotion and jewelry for the man’s wife and was proud of thinking of...

Nepal’s supreme court has freed three Tibetan activists jailed for leading anti-China protests, a court official said Tuesday.Court spokesman Hemanta Rawal said the judges ruled in favor of the activists Monday and ordered them to be...