(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Ayatollah Khamenei granted amnesty to 1,249 convicts on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of the Shiites' 12th and last Imam, Hazrat Mahdi (May God Hasten His Reappearance).
The pardon was made at the request of the country's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani.
Article 110 of the Constitution grants the Supreme Leader the right to pardon or reduce the sentences of convicts upon a recommendation from the head of the Judiciary.
Imam Mahdi was born the 15th of Sha'ban, the eighth month of the lunar calendar.
Every year numerous festivities are held across the country to mark the revered Imam Mahdi's birthday, one of Iran's most important national holidays.
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23 June 2013 - 05:17
News ID: 432632
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Saturday pardoned or commuted prison terms of a number of convicts sentenced by various Iranian courts.
