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Satyagraha Demanding Gnanasara Thero's Release Enters Day 9; Ven. Ulapane Thero Vows to Continue
COLOMBO - The continuous satyagraha campaign launched by a group of Buddhist monks at Colombo's Viharamahadevi Park demanding the presidential pardon and release of Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven.
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This comes after Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. In a parallel legal development, Colombo Fort Magistrate Pasan Amarasinghe directed the Fort Police to inform the higher court if certain monks originally named as respondents in the protest near the Presidential Secretariat had not actually participated. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero is released.
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