Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will pardon 10,000 prisoners including political ones in honor of the Iranian new year on Friday, state TV reported.
"Those who will be pardoned will not return to jail ...
almost half of those security-related prisoners will be pardoned as well," judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told state TV on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Esmaili said
Iran had temporarily freed about 85,000 people from jail, including political prisoners, in response to the coronavirus epidemic.