BARCELONA - Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves was released from a Barcelona prison on March 25 after posting bail of 1 million euro (S$1.46 million) bail over his conviction for the rape of a woman in a nightclub's restroom in 2022.

Last Wednesday, a local court ruled that Alves could be conditionally freed on bail while he appeals his rape conviction. He has served about a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year prison sentence.