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Wrongly convicted US black man freed after 25 years
2014-04-10 06:31:58| Footwear - Topix.net
An African-American man savored his first full day of freedom on Wednesday after spending 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
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Goodyear Executives Freed After Being Taken Hostage by French Workers
2014-01-07 23:15:43| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
"The show is only just beginning," Mickael Wamen, leader of the CGT union at Goodyear's Amiens-Nord factory, said after the hostages were released .
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Captive Goodyear managers freed
2014-01-07 16:01:00| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Workers at a Goodyear plant in Northern France free two managers who had been held captive in a dispute over the plant's closure.
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Freed Arctic 30 activist would risk freedom again
2013-11-23 04:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mail and Guardian: Anthony Perrett, the first of six Britons among the Greenpeace Arctic 30 to be released on bail, has revealed details of the group's two months in prison. He also said that if he could turn back the clock, he would risk his freedom again to protest against Arctic oil drilling. "I don't really want to go to jail for seven years, of course," Perrett told the Guardian in his first interview after his release. "But maybe this is all a blessing in disguise. It takes a lot to get people to pay attention...
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Arctic 30 Briton freed on bail by Russian court
2013-11-20 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A court in St Petersburg has ruled that Alexandra Harris, one of six Britons among the Arctic 30 charged by Russian authorities with hooliganism, can be freed on bail. The ruling comes after nine foreign citizens and three Russians were granted bail requests earlier in the week and appears to signal the first relaxation of Russia's tough stance on the Greenpeace activists, arrested two months ago after a protest against oil drilling in the Pechora sea. An emotional Harris begged the judge to set...
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