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Thursday 29 October 1992 19:02 EST
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ROME (AFP) - A leader of Italy's Red Brigades was sent back to prison after a new count of the time he has to serve. Alberto Franceschini, 45, who founded the Red Brigades with Renato Curcio, was conditionally released from prison in 1988 and set free in June this year. He has since been contributing to a magazine on life in prison.

Sardinian judicial authorities said Franceschini was entitled to a cut of his 22-year prison term for good conduct, but officials in Venice said the count should have started in 1982, not in 1974.

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