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Sri Lankan leader says bill to scrap executions illegal

Published on: Sunday 04 August 2019

Sri Lanka's president says the attorney general has informed him that a bill presented to Parliament last week seeking to abolish the death penalty is illegal. President Maithripala Sirisena made the ...

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