71.   Hassan won widespread acclaim for freeing political prisoners and paying compensation to the families of prisoners who disappeared or were killed while in jail.

72.   He demanded the soldiers free their prisoners.

73.   He has freed political prisoners, met with foreign envoys and thrown out many dictatorial decrees.

74.   He has said he envisions no change in U.S. policy toward the communist island unless free elections are held and political prisoners are freed.

75.   He promised that four Serb prisoners would be freed in exchange.

76.   He did not say how many detainees or political prisoners would be freed.

77.   He gave no explanation of why the guards decided to free the prisoners or how many guards were involved in their release.

78.   His cousin, he said, was captured by the Iraqis in an attack on a police station to free Kuwaiti prisoners.

79.   However, France also has pressed Beijing both in the past and now to free political prisoners and improve its human rights situation.

80.   However, he has called on the Palestinian leader to free Hamas prisoners and re-open Hamas schools and clinics, an appeal he repeated Saturday.