Example sentences of "released from prison [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 24 Harminder Singh Sandhu , the general secretary of the All-India Sikh Students ' Federation ( AISSF ) and a leading advocate of the establishment of Khalistan , who had been released from prison on Dec. 4 , was assassinated in Amritsar , by , it was widely speculated , factions struggling for supremacy within the Sikh militant movement . |
| 2 | Following the establishment of a committee to review the Constitution and to prepare for the introduction of a multiparty system [ see p. 36842 ] , the President 's office announced on Nov. 6 that a six-member committee had been set up ; the committee 's members included a leading human rights lawyer , Ismail Ali Jumaale , released from prison on Oct. 25 after four months ' detention . |
| 3 | Gen. Hartono Resko Dharsono , Indonesia 's most prominent dissident , was released from prison on Sept. 16 . |
| 4 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |
| 5 | A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence . |
| 6 | A British businessman , Roger Cooper , 55 , was released from prison on April 1 and returned to London on April 2 . |
| 7 | Mario Chanes de Armas , 65 , who took part in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks and was one of the original rebels who had landed in the Granma in 1956 to launch the revolution , was released from prison on July 16 , after serving 30 years for allegedly plotting to assassinate Castro . |
| 8 | Jimmy Stevens , the leader of a secessionist rebellion in Vanuatu in 1980 [ see pp. 30642-44 ] , was released from prison on Aug. 19 after serving 11 years of a 14@1/2-year sentence for treason . |
| 9 | Following an appeal made by Major during his visit , the Hong Kong businessman Luo Haixing was released from prison on Sept. 9 " on bail for medical treatment outside the country " . |
| 10 | Three members of the Roman Catholic clergy belonging to the pro-Vatican underground church were released from prison on Jan. 28 , according to Reuters news agency . |
| 11 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 12 | The leaders of the black Moslem fundamentalist Jamaat al-Moslemeen , Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilal Abdullah , and 114 other members of the group were released from prison on July 1 . |
| 13 | Bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was released from prison on Aug. 27 after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a fraud conviction against him . |
| 14 | Lt.-Col. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho , who had been released from prison on a legal technicality in 1989 [ see p. 36945 ] , in October faced new charges of involvement with the Popular Forces of April 25 ( FP-25 ) including a bank robbery in the 1980s . |
| 15 | Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu , was released from prison on Nov. 24 on health grounds ; he was said to be suffering from cirrhosis of the liver . |
| 16 | On Aug. 19 the first of 23,108 prisoners were released from prison as a result of a presidential pardon issued on Peasants ' Day , July 7 . |
| 17 | The general secretary of the Paraguayan Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Paraguayo — PCP ) , Antonio Maidana , who in 1978 had been released from prison into exile , returned to Paraguay on Dec. 16 . |
| 18 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 19 | Angel Alcalde , who became a deputy for United People ( Herri Batasuna — HB ) , the political wing of ETA , following the assassination on Nov. 20 , 1989 , of Josu Muguruza , an HB deputy in the Cortes [ see p. 37050 ] , was released from prison by order of the courts on Dec. 1 in order to take up his seat . |
| 20 | Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz , a political dissident widely recognized as a prisoner of conscience , was released from prison by the Cuban authorities on May 5 . |
| 21 | Mr Bull said since Smith was released from prison in April 1990 , after laundering stolen cheques , he had been unable to get a job until he managed to fool the WDA . |
| 22 | Orlando Azcué Rodríguez ( AI Prisoners Letter Writing Campaign June/July 1991 ) was conditionally released from prison in Cuba on 19 July 1991 after serving only 16 months of his three-year sentence for ‘ enemy propaganda . ’ |
| 23 | Despenser 's heir was released from prison in July 1331 , but had to wait until 1337 before receiving any of his father 's inheritance . |
| 24 | In early April 1990 , Price was released from prison in Sweden after serving approximately five years of his sentence . |
| 25 | On 6 July , Price was released from prison in this country . |
| 26 | Around 40 people convicted of political crimes in connection with acts of defiance during the campaign to impose Slavic names on ethnic Turks were released from prison in accordance with an amnesty bill passed by the National Assembly on Jan. 15 . |
| 27 | Orlando Ramón Agosti , a member of the ruling military junta in 1976-79 , was released from prison in May 1989 after serving part of a 4@1/2-year sentence imposed in December 1985 for torture and robbery committed during the dirty war [ see p. 34667 ] . |
| 28 | Han Dongfeng , leader of the Beijing Autonomous Workers ' Union ( BAWU ) , was released from prison in late April after being detained without trial for 22 months . |
| 29 | Kung had been released from prison in 1985 after serving 30 years for " counter-revolutionary " crimes [ see p. 33724 ] . |
| 30 | Dharsono , who had been released from prison in September 1990 after serving over four years of a seven-year sentence for subversion [ see p. 37715 ] , said that the FPPS had the support of some 70 leading intellectuals and dissidents . |