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Anti-Apartheid Icon's Killer Released on Parole in South Africa

Janusz Walus has been released from prison to serve a two-year parole period. This comes after Walus - a Polish immigrant imprisoned for the 1993 murder of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani - was stabbed in prison ahead of his initial release from confinement. His death sentence was converted to life imprisonment after capital punishment was ruled to be unconstitutional.

The announcement of his release caused outrage, resulting from the Constitutional Court ruling that Justice Minister Ronald Lamola's refusal to grant him parole in 2020 was "irrational and unconstitutional".

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An anti-apartheid protest in Amsterdam in 1985 (file photo).

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