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Syria frees rights defender Mazen Darwish, says wife

Prominent Syrian rights defender Mazen Darwish has been released after more than three years in prison pending a verdict in his case at the end of this month, his wife said Monday. “He has been freed ahead of a final verdict in his case on August 31,” Darwish’s wife Yara Bader told AFP. The leading journalist and rights activist was arrested in February 2012 along with two colleagues from his