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| Oscar Pistorius to be moved to house arrest | |
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| Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, jailed for killing his girlfriend, is to be freed from prison to house arrest on Tuesday, a South African parole board says. | |
| He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014 after being found guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter. | |
| He shot Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door but said he thought she was an intruder. | |
| The prosecution has appealed, saying he should instead be convicted of murder. | |
| Pistorius has spent 12 months in jail and will now spend the rest of his sentence under what is termed in South Africa "correctional supervision", the parole board said. | |
| An earlier decision to release him in August was blocked by South Africa's Justice Minister Michael Masutha saying it had been made "prematurely". | |
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