"We want the people in their private life to be completely free," the newly elected president told NBC News, after a string of prisoner releases.
The suspect, Luis Acosta, 33, had been arrested in connection with 16 sexual attacks since 1997, and his escape on May 6 was one in a string of prisoner escapes from police custody this year.
Ngawang Sandrol is the latest in a string of Tibetan political prisoners released this year.
A string of former political prisoners, including Mandela himself, testified to her courage and, perhaps even more important, to the effect she had in publicising and often alleviating the harshness of their conditions behind bars.
A statement by the military command in Baghdad gave no details about the scope or severity of the incidents, saying only that Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior American officer in Iraq, had directed an inquiry into the latest in a string of reported abuses of prisoners.
Mr Clarke is right; and he should be applauded for a string of constructive policies including prisoner work programmes and payment-by-results for private facilities focusing on rehabilitation rates.
Her role models were Puerto Rican radicals, linked to a group responsible for a string of deadly bombings, who declared themselves prisoners of war after being arrested.
The supreme court review was prompted by a string of recent procedures that have shown prisoners displaying visible signs of prolonged distress – most notoriously the execution of Clayton Lockett almost exactly one year ago, in which he thrashed and groaned on the gurney in full view of witnesses, taking 43 minutes to die.
An independent panel, blaming abuses of prisoners in Iraq on a string of failures that led all the way up the chain of command to the Pentagon, called for a sweeping overhaul of how the American military handles and interrogates prisoners in the global campaign against terrorism.
Based on their testimonies and those of former inmates, Mr Hawk estimates that there are 150,000-200,000 prisoners penneders, penned into a string of camps that can be pinpointed on Google Earth (being "sent up to the mountains" is a euphemism among ordinary folk for those who disappear).
