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.

The health condition of senior Hamas official Dr. al-Khudari has reportedly deteriorated in prison in Saudi Arabia.

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria urges the country’s authorities to release its already severely ailing leader Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky amid the new coronavirus' outbreak.

Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raeisi says Iran has temporarily released around 70,000 prisoners in order to prevent a further spread of the new coronavirus.

Two Australian MPs who have visited Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a high-security prison in London say he is undoubtedly being held as a “political prisoner.”

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has flown home as many as 128 Houthi prisoners from imprisonment in Saudi Arabia.