11.   Freeing prisoners from jail and allowing the guerrillas to escape would be difficult for Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to swallow.

12.   He pointed to such recent actions as the European Union telling Cuba that diplomatic relations would improve if it frees political prisoners.

13.   He said freeing some prisoners would dramatically alter the situation.

14.   In many cases, the prisoners are later freed without charges.

15.   In his ruling, Judge Denny Chin of U.S. District Court in Manhattan noted that federal courts rarely freed prisoners convicted in state criminal cases.

16.   Milosevic decided to free the prisoners the day after the United States and NATO rejected his six-point plan for a war settlement.

17.   On Sunday, the government also suspended plans to free Palestinian prisoners, and other measures intended to push the talks forward.

18.   On Saturday, prisoners and their families began an open hunger strike that they say will last until the last political prisoner is freed.

19.   Palestinian demonstrators have regularly demanded after such attacks, or in anticipation of them, that prisoners be freed for their own protection.

20.   Political prisoners are being freed.