Alaa Abd El Fattah became a prominent campaigner during protests in Cairo in 2011 that led to the ousting of former president Hosni Mubarak. In 2014, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison - later ...

Egypt has pardoned its most prominent political prisoner, a British dual national pro-democracy campaigner who had spent nearly a decade behind bars.

Yolanda Briggs, 52, of Horbling Lane, Stickney, admitted to having sex with prisoner Allan Collins at HMP North Sea Camp.

Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the release of a detained American citizen on Sunday, a week after an elderly British couple were also released by the authorities.

Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was imprisoned in Egypt for six years, is reunited with his family in Cairo after being pardoned.

Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, left, who was in prison for almost all of the past 12 years, hugs his mother Laila Soueif, as he arrives at his home, after a presidential pardon, in Cairo, ...

A British judge has sentenced an asylum-seeker to 12 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl ...