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Sri Lanka frees prisoners to mark Buddhist holiday

Sri Lanka Prisons Commissioner-General Thushara Upuldeniya says 982 men and six women walked free after receiving pardons on Wesak Day. – Sri Lanka Prisons Department pic, May 6, 2023.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe ordered the early release of nearly 1,000 prisoners to mark the island’s main Buddhist holiday, the prisons chief said today. The pardons on Wesak Day, which commemorates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death, applied only to those convicted of minor offences, said Commissioner-General Thushara Upuldeniya.

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