14 April 2012, 22:30

President of Georgia pardons 200 prisoners by Easter

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has decreed - on the eve of the Easter - to pardon 200 prisoners.

The pardoned prisoners will be at large by the end of the day, Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, Minister for Corrections, said at a briefing.

In total, before the Easter, the commission for pardons under President of Georgia considered 417 cases of prisoners; of these, it was decided to release 170 persons and to halve the remaining terms of 30 other convicts, the "News-Georgia" reports.

There are women among those pardoned; however, minors were rejected pardoning, since they had been convicted for serious crimes, the "Georgia-Online" reports.

Most of those pardoned were convicted for thefts, the PIK-TV channel reports.

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