11.   Citing a lack of evidence, authorities have freed a Bosnian Serb they arrested a week ago after a local court accused him of war crimes.

12.   Chinese authorities eventually freed his wife but accused Song of spying and kept him in custody.

13.   He said the tribe insisted on their demand that authorities free a tribal member arrested three months ago on a murder charge.

14.   It seems doubtful, for example, that local authorities would free the two brothers with merely a scolding after the first mutilation.

15.   NTV special correspondent Yelena Masyuk and her crew members spent more than three months in captivity until Chechen authorities freed them Sunday night and arrested three of their captors.

16.   Puerto Rican authorities on Thursday freed an actress convicted of murder more than a decade ago for hiring hit men to kill her husband.

17.   Russian authorities on Monday freed from custody a former top military official suspected of large-scale corruption.

18.   Serb authorities Saturday freed nine ethnic Albanian rebels captured near the border with Albania last month, ethnic Albanian sources said.

19.   The bombing came the same day Islamic insurgents threatened to attack wives of police and army officers unless authorities freed all women detained for collaborating with Muslim militants.

20.   The Malaysian Muslim Youth Movement also called on the authorities to free four of their leaders detained under security act.