Colombo, Sept 10, 2026 (AFP) - Sri Lanka court revokes monk's pardon, orders return to prison

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2026-09-10

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court overturned Thursday a presidential pardon granted to a hardline Buddhist monk and ordered him to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist. The ruling marks a major setback for Galagodaatte Gnanasara, 51, a Buddhist nationalist monk whose critics accuse him of fuelling anti-Muslim sentiment and religious tensions in Sri Lanka. A three-judge bench ruled that the pa......

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