51.   Many detainees have been released, but the crackdown has been widely criticized by government and opposition politicians as a case of the military exceeding its powers.

52.   Min said the junta would also continue an earlier process of releasing political detainees, many of them Suu Kyi supporters.

53.   Mladic and his aides released the detainees they were holding for days, and Plavsic promised to end the complete isolation of Han Pijesak.

54.   Nedeljko Prstojevic, mayor of the Ilidza suburb, said the other detainees would be released during the day, the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA reported.

55.   New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday that he believed all the detainees had been released.

56.   Palestinian officials said that by attacking the prisons, Israel forced the prison guards to release the detainees.

57.   Police did not release the detainees to attend the scheduled hearing.

58.   Scores of pro-democracy activists rounded up to prevent a landmark opposition conference remained unheard from Monday, three days after the military regime reported that detainees were being released.

59.   She urged its government to release political detainees.

60.   Some Freedom Movement detainees have been released.