Publish Date: 11 October 2014 - 10:56

TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) – Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran has granted pardon for a number of convicts on the occasion of Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Qadir.

1256 convicts were proposed by the head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Amoli Larijani eligible to be granted pardon, which Ayatollah Khamenei responded positively, thus extending pardon to convicts of public, Revolutionary and Military Disciplinary courts, Mehr News quoted the Bureau for the Protection and Dissemination of Ayatollah Khamenei's Works.

Ayatollah Amoli Larijani proposed the extension of pardon for this number of convicts whom were identified as eligible for pardon by the Judiciary's Central Commission on Amnesty and Pardons.

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