A number of Tamil political prisoners will be released as soon as possible, the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has announced.
Paying an official visit to Jaffna on Tuesday, Mr Rajapakshe said that while the department had been taking steps to release all Tamil political prisoners, certain numbers of them would be released according to the offences committed and on the advice of the Attorney General.
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