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COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe granted amnesty to more than 1,000 convicts and released them from jails across the South Asian country to mark Christmas, a prisons official said on Monday.
Among the 1,004 freed on Monday were Sri Lankans jailed for not being able to pay outstanding fines, Prison Commissioner Gamini Dissanayake said.
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