Colombo, Sri Lanka. 23rd May, 2019. Sri Lankan General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara looks on at the Rukmalgama Temple in Rukmalgama Near the Colombo on May 23, 2019. A firebrand Sri Lankan Buddhist monk serving a six-year jail term for contempt of court was freed on May 23 following a presidential pardon, Galagodaatte Gnanasara was driven out of the Welikada prison hospital where he had spent much of his sentence since his first imprisonment in June last year. Credit: Pradeep Dambarage/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

Colombo, Sri Lanka. 23rd May, 2019. Sri Lankan General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara looks on at the Rukmalgama Temple in Rukmalgama Near the Colombo on May 23, 2019. A firebrand Sri Lankan Buddhist monk serving a six-year jail term for contempt of court was freed on May 23 following a presidential pardon, Galagodaatte Gnanasara was driven out of the Welikada prison hospital where he had spent much of his sentence since his first imprisonment in June last year. Credit: Pradeep Dambarage/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News Stock Photo

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