FILE - Pardoned prisoners
CAIRO – 24 November 2018: New patch of the pardoned prisoners per decree no. 455/2018 issued by President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, was released on Friday Nov. 23, raising the total number of freed prisoners to 1067.
The decree issued by Sisi aims to grant prisoners a reduction in prison sentences they serve in the occasion of the 45th anniversary of October 6 victory. The numbers of prisoners who received presidential pardons and conditional release (remain under observation for a designated period of time) are respectively 76 .
On October 2016, President Sisi announced the formation of a presidential pardon committee, headed by political thinker, Osama al-Ghazaly Harb, for pardoning detainees with charges pending further investigation.
In November 2016, Sisi declared the first presidential pardon list, pardoning 82 detainees, including TV presenter and religious thinker Islam al-Behery, who was charged with “contempt of Islam”.
A second pardon list was declared in March 2017, pardoning 203 detainees. The list included five journalists, according to Masrawy news outlet. In June 2017, Sisi announced pardoning 502 detainees.
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