Leader pardons, commutes sentences of 102 inmates

Rasa - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has pardoned or commuted the sentences of a number of Iranian prisoners.

News ID: 2577

Date: 24 May 2015 - 16:51

RNA - Ayatollah Khamenei on Sunday agreed to pardon or reducing the sentences of 102 eligible inmates convicted by the Judicial Organization of the Armed Forces.

The Leader’s decision came in response to a letter from Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani asking for clemency regarding eligible convicts on the occasion of the birth anniversaries of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shia Imam and the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH); Imam Mahdi (PBUH), the twelfth Imam of Shias; and the anniversary of the liberation of the southwestern Iranian city of Khorramshahr.

On May 24, 1982, Iranian soldiers, through a landmark operation codenamed Beit ol-Moqaddas, put an end to 575 days of Iraqi occupation of the strategic Iranian city of Khorramshahr.

In retaking the city, the Iranians captured some 19,000 soldiers from the Iraqi army.

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