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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
A Red Cross bus transporting 30 Palestinian detainees leaves the Ofer prison, in latest exchange amid a fragile Hamas-Israel truce. As the latest group of Israeli hostages was released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a source close to the Islamist militant group said it was willing to extend the truce that has paused weeks of deadly fighting and enabled aid to reach Gaza civilians. Israel had yet to respond. IMAGES
A bus transporting Palestinian prisoners leaves Ofer prison upon their release into the occupied West Bank as part of a Israel-Hamas hostage exchange deal. Thirty Palestinian prisoners were freed overnight Wednesday, Israeli prison authorities said, in the final exchange under an extended truce deal due to expire within hours. IMAGES
A crowd cheers as an ICRC bus transports prisoners released from Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank after a truce between Israel and Hamas. A total of 28 prisoners were released in the occupied West Bank, an AFP correspondent saw, while the other 11 were brought to annexed east Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club advocacy group. IMAGES
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