1.   A court hearing will be held later to determine if he should be freed pending appeal by the state.

2.   He was immediately freed pending his appeal, which will take at least another year.

3.   Spectators in the courtroom booed as the sentence was translated into Xhosa and followed Ntini out singing and dancing when he was freed pending appeal.

4.   Under Dutch law, van Bladeren has been freed pending trial and can therefore attempt to revisit the museum.

5.   He had been freed pending the outcome of the appeal.

6.   He was freed pending an investigation into claims that he fired in self-defense.

7.   He was later freed pending his trial.

8.   He was convicted on Monday of assaulting Arabs five years ago but was freed pending an appeal.

9.   Jorge Antonio Olivera was freed Monday pending a decision on an extradition request from French authorities, a court official said Tuesday.

10.   Lawyers expect Ibrahim, said to be suffering from a degenerative neurological condition, to be freed pending the new trial.