Via the article: https://www.rt.com/news/570998-iran-pardon-convicts-protesters/

' Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has agreed to grant amnesty to “tens of thousands” of prisoners, among which are people convicted for their role in the recent protests and riots, state media reported on Sunday.

The move coincided with the 44th anniversary of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, which is celebrated in Iran between February 1 and 11.

Those who participated in the protests and riots could have their sentences reduced or be pardoned altogether, as long as they were not accused of espionage, contacting foreign intelligence agents, did not damage state property, and did not injure or kill anyone during the riots, state news agency IRNA said.

Khamenei reportedly approved a request for the pardons that had been made by Iran’s Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei. The supreme leader regularly issues similar verdicts on occasion of various religious festivities.

The exact number of those covered by the amnesty has not been revealed, but IRNA reported “tens of thousands” could be pardoned. It is also unclear how many of those were convicted over participation in the protests'

A little ironic considering the bunk claims from Amnesty International that Iran was going to execute thousands of protesters not too long ago. Remains to be seen how far this Pardon will go though .

  • Vncredleader
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    2 years ago

    Didn't Ghadaffi do this when protests started? Gotta say while so many people should be freed this is giving me some flashbacks

    • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I forget about Gaddafi, can't research it right now out with a friend but hey I do remember what Assad did. Granted amnesty to many early on, was accused by the west of just letting the most hardcore Islamist out of prison in an attempt to poison the waters of the anti regime movements ( no opinion on the validity of this accusation).

      Libya and Syria are very very different cases from Iran for so many reasons though.

      Libyas main "mistake" (even along with Syria to an extent) was neoliberal economic reforms and(this is related to the neoliberal reforms too) letting so many figures in the government and close to heads of state be educated in idiot factory's like Harvard and various western bourgeoisie institutions.