{"id":1602,"date":"2020-03-19T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2020-07-28T18:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:42:44","slug":"iran-to-pardon-10000-including-security-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Iran to pardon 10,000 including &#8216;security&#8217; prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/iransos.com\/en\/photo\/jail\/gohardasht.gif\" \/>Announcement follows temporary release of 85,000 to ease pressure on prisons amid coronavirus crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>03.18.2020- Guardian &#8211; <\/strong>Iran\u00a0is to pardon 10,000 prisoners including political ones in honour of the Iranian new year on Friday, according to state TV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was not stated whether the pardons would include the\u00a0British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe\u00a0\u2013 who was released on Tuesday for two weeks, when 85,000 were let out temporarily because of coronavirus \u2013\u00a0or the\u00a0British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was not known to have been released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA large number of prisoners who have been temporarily freed do not need to return to jail after the leader\u2019s pardon,\u201d said Gholamhossein Esmaili, a judiciary spokesman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThose who will be pardoned will not return to jail &#8230; almost half of those security-related [political] prisoners will be pardoned as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe unprecedented point is that the pardon also includes the security-related prisoners with less than five-year jail sentences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail in 2016. Moore-Gilbert has been held in prison in Tehran for 18 months after being sentenced in a secret trial to 10 years in prison for espionage \u2013 a charge she denies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards have arrested dozens of dual nationals and foreigners over recent years, including citizens of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Austria, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and Lebanon. Tehran denies it holds people on political grounds and has mainly accused foreign prisoners of espionage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coronavirus outbreak has prompted calls from the United Nations and the United States for political prisoners, including dozens of dual nationals and foreigners, to be released from Iran\u2019s overcrowded and disease-ridden jails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran said it had 189,500 people in prison, according to a report that the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, submitted to the Human Rights Council in January. They are believed to include hundreds arrested during or after anti-government protests in November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>With Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement follows temporary release of 85,000 to ease pressure on prisons amid coronavirus crisis 03.18.2020- Guardian &#8211; Iran\u00a0is to pardon 10,000 prisoners including political ones in honour of the Iranian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[506,263,56],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kylie-moore-gilbert","tag-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe","tag-political-prisoners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}