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Jailbreakers reportedly turning themselves in

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    Convicts in Freetown, who escaped from jail during the rebel attacks on the city, have started turning themselves in, Star radio reported today (Thursday). It said many of the inmates were serving sentences for treason. However, former Sierra Leone president Joseph Momoh, who was given a 10-year jail sentence for collaborating with the military junta that seized power in 1997, has not given himself up, neither have former parliamentarian Victor Foh and broadcaster Hilton Fyle, both of whom have been sentenced to death.

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