Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has been released from prison in Saudi Arabia after serving a 10-year sentence for criticizing the kingdom’s extremist Wahhabi ideology.

Protests have been held in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture against the government's controversial plan to release contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

A number of UN agencies call on Israeli authorities to immediately release chronically ill Palestinian teenager Amal Nakhleh, who suffers from a rare neuromuscular disorder and has been held without charge for a year.

An Israeli court rejects an appeal for the immediate release of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for nearly 120 days.

Bahraini people rally again near the capital Manama, demanding "immediate" release of hundreds of prisoners of conscience.

Israel’s top court rejects an appeal for the immediate release of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than 120 days.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet describes the recent military coup in Sudan as "deeply disturbing," calling on the country's military leaders to "step back."

Sudan’s army chief, who led a military coup last month, has ordered the release of four government ministers amid international efforts to end the African country’s political crisis.

The Taliban government in Afghanistan is pressing for the release of billions of dollars in Afghan central bank reserves overseas, which have been frozen since the group's takeover of the country.

Seventy-five children who were kidnapped from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara have been r released.