Publish Date: 28 June 2010 - 20:17

TEHRAN, June 28 (MNA) – In a decree issued on Monday Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave amnesty to certain prisoners and reducing the sentences of some others.

Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Larijani Amoli, in a letter to the Supreme Leader, had made a proposal to give amnesty to 708 convicts on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Imam Ali (AS), the first Shiite Imam.

These people were convicted in the Islamic Revolutionary court and other courts.

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