October 25, 2003

• Convicts Get Pardons After Song Contest

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  MOSCOW - This was truly music that freed the body. Six prisoners competing in a national song contest for convicts pleased the judges enough to win pardons, the Interfax news agency reported Friday.
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  The six were among 23 finalists chosen from more than 800 prisoners who submitted tapes of self-composed songs for the contest, which was held at a Moscow theater

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