From the BBC:
The US man jailed for visiting Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been released and deported.
John Yettaw, whose health is described as fragile, left Burma on a plane with visiting US Senator Jim Webb, who negotiated the deal on Saturday.
Mr Webb was the most senior US official to meet the Burmese leader. He also met pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Mr Yettaw was jailed for seven years over the visit and Ms Suu Kyi was given an additional 18 months' house arrest.
Mr Yettaw flew with Senator Webb to Bangkok, where he was taken to hospital in a US embassy van.
Senator Webb told reporters 53-year-old Mr Yettaw was "not a well man".
"He had a medical incident this morning when they read him his orders of deportation," the senator told reporters at Bangkok airport.
"He's now undergoing a thorough medical review here in a hospital, and soon he will be able to return to his family."
His wife, Betty, told the BBC on Saturday she was happy to hear the "wonderful" news that he would be released.
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