INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has pardoned 08 Tamil prisoners including 03 accused of attempting to assassinate former President Chandrika
Constitution of Sri Lanka, the President Ranil Wickremesinghe has granted amnesty to eight Tamil prisoners who by the powers assigned to the
President in connection with granting amnesty to a person convicted by a court of Sri Lanka.As a result of several discussions between Tamil
MPs and the President on several occasions, steps were taken to release these prisoners
Before their release, a preliminary investigation had been carried out on them with the intervention of the Ministry of Defence on the
instructions of the President
of the Tamil prisoners who were pardoned were those accused of attempting to assassinate former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
former President Mrs Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga on the advice of the President, the relevant arrangements were made after obtaining
prisoners had been sentenced to 30 years in prison and had served 22 years, one prisoner who had been sentenced to 11 years and had served
14 years, one who has been sentenced to 10 years and had also served 14 years, two prisoners who were sentenced to five years but had served
for14 years, were among those who received a presidential pardon
Another person who had been sentenced to 19 years in prison and had served 11 years of his sentence so far was also among those who were
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