Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili has pardoned 170 inmates.
120 out of the pardoned will be released today, while the remaining 50 will have their prison terms commuted.
Head of the Pardon Commission Zviad Koridze announced that nine from the pardoned are women.
He added minors were also included in the list.
The Commission discussed 1,073 cases in total.
The President’s Pardon Commission is composed of ten people including Koridze.
The Commission members are mainly lawyers from the civil sector, public figures, the Public Defender and a spiritual representative from Georgia’s Patriarchate.
The group must discuss all cases sent to the Pardon Commission by inmates or their families and decide which prisoners they believe deserve to be pardoned. The list then is sent to the President.
The President makes the final decision to pardon the inmates or not.