President pardons 226 prisoners, one with life imprisonment
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The President of Georgia has pardoned 226 inmates; one of them had been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
Out of the 226 prisoners 141 will leave penitentiary institutions today, the remaining 85 will have their
sentences commuted,” head of the Pardon Commission under the president of Georgia Zviad Koridze announced.
Koridze said that among those pardoned, 13 were women and two minors.
12 women from the pardoned will be released today,” Koridze added.
Koridze said that the Pardon Commission had discussed 1,604 cases in total and appealed to the president to pardon those who deserved this more compared to others.
The prisoner formerly sentenced to life imprisonment will have the sentence commuted.
154 inmates walk free, 72 have prison terms reduced
More than 150 inmates will spend the hot days of August, and the rest of their lives, with their families and loved one following their release from prison after the President’s pardon today.
Today the President of Georgia pardoned 238 prisoners, but not all of these inmates will be released from jail.
The President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili has pardoned 98 people serving sentences in Georgia’s prisons.
Georgia’s President and the Pardon Commission have discussed the possibility of offering a pardon to inmates serving life sentences in Georgian prisons.