By Admin 
- Many people arrested in the December 2025 protests will be released.
Amidst the ongoing conflict and tension with America and Israel in West Asia, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mujtaba Khamenei has announced a major decision on Friday (June 5, 2026). According to Iran’s government news channel Press TV, the Supreme Leader on Friday forgave or reduced the sentences of more than 2,000 prisoners.
Khamenei approved the recommendation of the judiciary chief
According to the report, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei approved the mercy petition request to pardon, reduce or commute the sentences of more than two thousand prisoners on the recommendation made by the country’s Judiciary Chief Ghulam Hussein Mohseni AG. After this decision of the Supreme Leader, it is likely that a large number of prisoners will get relief from the jails of Iran and the way will be cleared for the release of many.
However, prisoners convicted of crimes related to national security, people serving sentences in espionage cases, those who took action against Iran’s internal or external security and those convicted of crimes that endangered public security are not included in the amnesty.
Relief to prisoners before Eid-al-Ghadir
A statement in this regard has been issued on the official website of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In which it is also said that this amnesty has been given to more than 2,000 prisoners lodged in the jails of Iran before Eid-al-Ghadir, one of the most important religious festivals of Shia Muslims. For which the head of Iran’s judiciary, Ghulam Hussein Mohseni AG, had recommended a mercy petition to the Supreme Leader.
A large number of arrests were made during the protests in Iran
It is noteworthy that thousands of citizens were arrested after the nationwide demonstrations in December 2025 amid the growing economic crisis in Iran and the difficulties created by the decades-old sanctions imposed by the US. Now a large number of these prisoners are expected to get relief.
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