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Prisoner Release – 2000

The final batch of prisoners was released on 28 July. A total of 428 pro-British Loyalist and pro-Irish Republican guerrillas were released early under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.¹

1. “Britain Frees Northern Irish Prisoners,” ABC News, July 28, 2000, http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=83044&page=1; Keesing’s Record of World Events (Volume 46), July 2000, 43685.