Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned “tens of thousands” of prisoners, including those detained at recent anti-government protests on security-related charges, state media reported on Sunday.
“Prisoners who are not charged with espionage for foreign agencies, direct contact with foreign agents, willful murder and injury, destruction and arson of state property, or not having a private perpetrator in the case will be pardoned,” state media said.
The pardons were announced in honor of the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
According to the activist news agency HRANA, around 20,000 people were arrested because of anti-government protests triggered by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurd, in September 2022.
(Reporting by Dubai newsroom, editing by Toby Chopra)
Source: CNN Brasil
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