Former media baron released from US jail

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Conrad Black, the former media baron, has been freed from a US prison after serving his more-than-three-year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice, prison officials say.

The 67-year-old Black, who was first freed in July 2010 after serving more than two years into a six-and-a-half year term, was ordered back to prison in June, with a district judge in Chicago ruling that he had not yet served enough time in prison to remain at liberty.

"Mr Conrad Black has been released this morning from FCC Coleman in Florida," Chris Burke, spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was quoted as saying on Friday by AFP news agency.

The US supreme court freed him on the grounds that an anti-corruption law under which he had been tried was unconstitutional.

Black was convicted in 2007 for defrauding shareholders of $6.1m in Hollinger, a media holding company.

Al Jazeera

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