MNA– Leader of the Islamic Revolution has agreed to extend pardon or discount on sentence of 593 prisoners for the occasion of anniversary of birth of Prophet Muhammad.The clemency had been previously proposed by the head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani on the occasions of Prophet Muhammamd birth anniversary.

It suggested for 593 convicts of General and Revolutionary courts and also those of Judiciary Organization of the Armed Forces and State Discretionary Punishment Organization who had been identified having conditions which made them eligible for a state pardon or commutation, to which Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei agreed.