Details of Oscar Pistorius' release from prison on Friday are reportedly being kept under wraps over fears for his safety.
The South African Paralympic gold medallist is to be released nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, having been granted parole.
He was serving a 13-year jail sentence for shooting Ms Steenkamp multiple times through the bathroom door in their Pretoria home on Valentine's Day in 2013.
Following his release on Friday Pistorius, now 37, is to remain under close supervision and will be subject to parole conditions until his sentence expires in December 2029.
He will be assigned a monitoring official, who will have to be kept informed when he is seeking job opportunities or moving homes.
As part of the conditions, Pistorius will not be allowed to consume alcohol and other prohibited substances, and will be restricted from doing media interviews, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) said on Wednesday.
He will also be expected to stay at home at particular hours of the day, though which hours the DCS has not yet specified.
Pistorius will also have to attend programmes on gender-based violence and continue therapy sessions on anger management, a lawyer for the Steenkamp family said shortly after he was granted parole.
He is expected to live in Pretoria, but exact details of the plan of his release have reportedly been kept secret, amid reported concerns for his safety.
According to MailOnline, Singabakho Nxumalo, of South Africa's Department of Correctional Services (DCS), said: "The details in terms of transportation plans and time of release shall not be made public.
"Disclosing such details may result in a security threat for the inmate and other stakeholders involved."
Pistorius, who was born without fibulas and had both legs amputated below the knees before his first birthday, was once seen as the embodiment of human triumph over adversity.
He became known as the "Blade Runner" for his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs.
The Johannesburg-born athlete gained global fame in the early 2000s when he won Paralympic gold in the 200 metres at the Games in Athens.
Pistorius then set his sights on running against able-bodied athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but was barred from competing in the event by World Athletics - then called the International Association of Athletics Federations.
The ban was eventually overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but Pistorius failed to qualify for the Olympics, coming within 0.70 seconds of the qualifying standard for the 400 metres in Beijing.
Undeterred, he swept that year's Paralympics, taking home the 100, 200 and 400 metre gold medals, before launching a bid to qualify for 2012 Olympics in London.
This time he was successful, and reached the 400m semi-finals and competed for South Africa in the 4x400m relay.
He also won another three Paralympic medals that year but then, on February 14, 2013, he shot and killed Ms Steenkamp.
A gun enthusiast, he told his trial he had believed Ms Steenkamp was an intruder when he shot her several times with ammunition designed to inflict maximum damage to the human body. It was an account he repeated over the years.
He was initially jailed for five years in 2014 for culpable homicide. That sentence was changed to six years after the Supreme Court of Appeal in late 2015 found him guilty of the more serious charge of murder, later increasing it to 13 years after prosecutors argued the punishment was too lenient.
In 2022, Pistorius met Ms Steenkamp's father Barry during a process known as victim-offender dialogue - part of South Africa's restorative justice programme that brings parties affected by a crime together in a bid to achieve closure.
Few details were made public about the meeting, and Ms Steenkamp's father died in 2023.
Her mother June said in a statement before the parole hearing for Pistorius that she was not convinced he had been rehabilitated.
But she added she had forgiven him "long ago as I knew most certainly that I would not be able to survive if I had to cling to my anger".
Serious offenders in South Africa must serve at least half of their sentence to be eligible for parole, which Pistorius has done.
