British release Indian nationalist leader Gandhi released from prison 70 years ago today (May 6 1944)


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(Saturday May 6, 1944) — Indian nationalist leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was unconditionally released by British authorities today “wholly on medical grounds” from a prison at Toona, India, after 21 months of internment for advocating only passive resistance to the Japanese. Doctors prescribed rest for his blood infection.