Iran’s chief Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has accredited a request by the Judiciary’s chief to pardon or scale back the sentences of 1,526 convicts on the event of Nowruz, Eid al-Fitr, and the Islamic Republic Day.
The media middle of the Iranian Judiciary quoted Ali Mozafari, the deputy of the Judiciary, as saying that 1,457 convicts from revolutionary courts, 16 from the armed forces judicial group, and 53 from the discretionary group have been included within the pardon.
Mozafari famous that 46 death-row inmates, whose sentences had been upheld and have been awaiting execution, have been granted Islamic mercy and had their penalties commuted to imprisonment.
These people had primarily been discovered responsible of committing drug-related crimes.
Mozafari famous that 13 international nationals and 66 girls are additionally amongst these pardoned or receiving sentence reductions.
