Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has pardoned or commuted the sentences of 5,156 Iranian convicts on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Imam Reza (AS).
On the occasion of the anniversary of the two happy events, Iran’s Chief of Judiciary Ebrahim Raisi, in a letter to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, proposed to pardon or commute the punishment of 1,849 convicts and the proposal was approved by Ayatollah Khamenei in the implementation of Paragraph 11 of the Article 110 of the country’s constitution.