Ayatollah Khamenei donates eight billion rials to families of prisoners in West Azerbaijan ‎Province

Approximately eight billion rials of donations made by the Supreme Leader have been ‎distributed among the families of prisoners in northwestern Iranian province of West ‎Azerbaijan.‎

News ID: 450047

Date: 28 April 2020 - 14:52

RNA – Approximately eight billion rials (about $50,219 US) of donations made by the ‎Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, have been ‎distributed among the families of prisoners in northwestern Iranian province of West ‎Azerbaijan, according to the director of the provincial prisoners’ affairs on Monday.‎

Hamzeh Boroujani said that the Leader’s donations aim to help protect the families of ‎prisoners whose breadwinners are passing prison terms and therefore they cannot afford the ‎costs of the family.‎

He said that West Azerbaijan province has received the fifth largest amount of the ‎Supreme Leader’s donations to the families of the prisoners of different Iranian provinces.‎

He said that some most vulnerable families were also granted a package of essential ‎commodities worth three million rials.‎

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