Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accepted a proposal by the country’s Judiciary to «pardon or reduce the sentence of a significant number» of defendants and convicts for their involvement in protests against the death in custody last year of young Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reports.
According to the terms stipulated by the Judiciary, the amnesty would be granted to those accused and convicted who «have not committed espionage, intentional homicide or injury, or destruction of public property».
According to the NGO Hrana, a total of approximately 19,600 people have been arrested since the outbreak of the protests, of whom 713 have already been sentenced by an Iranian court. At least four people have been executed and 109 are threatened with the possibility of ending up on death row.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
