Leader pardons post-election convicts

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei has pardoned or commuted the sentences of a number of convicts involved in the post-election riots in Iran last year.

Eighty-one convicts implicated in the unrest following the June 12, 2009 Iranian presidential polls were pardoned or had their sentences reduced upon the Leader’s approval on Wednesday.

The request for amnesty came from Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani.

In his letter to Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Judiciary chief had emphasized that the repentant convicts would be eligible for pardon or sentence reduction if the Leader approved.