Baku. Real Jafarli – APA. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei pardoned or commuted prison terms of a large number of convicts sentenced by various Iranian courts on the occasion of the Muslim feasts of Eid Al-Adha and Eid Al-Qadir, APA reports quoting Fars News Agency.
Ayatollah Khamenei agreed with granting clemency to a sum of 1,241 convicts of different Iranian courts.
The pardon was made at the request of the country's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani.