A Spanish court has ruled that ex-Barcelona and Brazil footballer Dani Alves can be conditionally released from jail, after serving about a quarter of his sentence for rape.
Alves, who was sentenced to four and a half years in prison last month, will be released on a 1.1 million dollar bail.
He had been held in pre-trial detention since January 2023.
The 40-year-old was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.