On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr this year, King Mohammed VI issued a supreme pardon to a group of people, including detainees and those on release, sentenced by the various courts of the Kingdom, amounting to 1,518 people.
The following is the text communicated by the Ministry of Justice in this regard:
“On the occasion of Eid al-Fitr for this year 1444 AH 2023 AD, His Majesty the King, may God perpetuate his glory and grant him victory, issued, may God preserve him, his sublime and obedient order to pardon a group of people, including those detained and those in a state of release, who were sentenced by the various courts of the honorable Kingdom and they number 1518 people, and they are as follows:
The beneficiaries of the Royal High Pardon who are in a state of detention, numbering 1,270 inmates, are as follows:
- Pardoning the remainder of a sentence of imprisonment or imprisonment for the benefit of: 411 inmates
- Reducing imprisonment or imprisonment for the benefit of: 858 inmates
Conversion of life imprisonment to fixed prison for the benefit of: 01, one inmate
The beneficiaries of the Royal High Pardon, who are in a state of release, number 231, distributed as follows:
- Amnesty from the prison sentence or the remainder of it for the benefit of: 61 persons
- Pardoning the prison sentence while keeping the fine for: 08 people
- Amnesty of fines for the benefit of: 156 people
- Amnesty of imprisonment and fines for: 04 persons
- Pardon from the fine and the remainder of the prison sentence for the benefit of: 02 two persons, the total: 1501
On this auspicious occasion, King Mohammed VI additionally pardoned a group of those convicted in cases of extremism and terrorism, after they officially declared their attachment to the nation’s constants and sanctities and to national institutions, and after reviewing their positions and intellectual orientations, and their renunciation of extremism and terrorism, numbering 17 people.
- Pardoning the rest of the custodial sentence for: 05 inmates
- Forgiveness of the remainder of the custodial sentence and the fine for: 05 inmates
- Reducing the penalty of deprivation of liberty for the benefit of: 06 inmates
- Amnesty from the fine for: 01 one convict
The grand total: 1,518
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