Iran’s judiciary said it pardoned some 22,000 people arrested in widespread anti-government protests that erupted last September.
They are among some 82,000 people who were part of a prisoner amnesty announced last month by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the head of Iran’s judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, said in a statement on the state-run Mizan Online.
The pardons do not include protesters who have been accused or convicted of violent crimes, the statement added.