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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, speaking to the media for the first time since being released from six years of detention in Iran, says she believes "that the meaning of freedom is never going to be complete until such time as all of us who are unjustly detained in Iran are reunited with their families", citing Morad Tahbaz, other dual nations and prisoners of conscience. IMAGES
The plane carrying the two Frenchmen released by Iran, Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan, lands at Le Bourget airport near Paris. The pair were among some two dozen foreigners jailed in Iran who campaigners see as hostages held in a deliberate strategy by Tehran to extract concessions from the West. IMAGES
Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, speaks of his 'huge relief that she's on a plane, that she's coming home, that she's free' following news that she has been released from 6 years of detention in Iran. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the news and data agency, was arrested in Tehran on a visit to family in 2016. SOUNDBITE
Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko and his second-in-command, presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, are released from prison ten days before the country's election. Their released sparked an outburst of celebration among thousands of Dakar residents who spontaneously took to the streets of the Senegalese capital. IMAGES
Cheering and joy as several government opponents are released from the Reubeuss prison in Senegal, amid a political crisis that has gripped the country since the presidential election was delayed. IMAGES
Scene outside of Pretoria's prison where South Africa's ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was jailed before being released on parole, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world. IMAGES
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