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schema:articleBody	Iran is to free "around 10,000 prisoners" in an amnesty marking the Persian New Year, Nowruz, on Friday, including half of those serving time for security offences, the judiciary said. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei grants several mass amnesties a year marking the major Islamic and national holidays but this week's early releases come as Iran battles one of the world's worst COVID-19 outbreaks outside China. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili made no explicit reference to the coronavirus in an overnight statement carried by the judiciary's Mizan Online website. The latest amnesty aims to "reduce the number of prisoners in light of the sensitive situation in the country", Esmaili said. "Around half of those convicted of national security offences will benefit from this amnesty," Esamili added without giving a figure. Previous amnesties have largely benefited common law prisoners so the judiciary's decision on security prisoners was unusual. Mizan Online underlined the "unprecedented nature" of this week's early releases for prisoners serving sentences of less than five years. Human rights group Amnesty International gave the amnesty a guarded welcome. "Amnesty International welcomes the release of anyone detained as a prisoner of conscience" and "is again calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all prisoners of conscience," it said. Iran denies holding any political prisoners and frequently rejects what it sees as the West's conflation of political and security prisoners. Iran has announced 18,407 novel coronavirus infections and 1,284 deaths, the world's highest toll apart from Italy and China, where the virus originated. Alongside the amnesty, the judiciary announced that 85,000 prisoners had been granted two-week furloughs for the Nowruz holiday, further reducing the prison population. The amnesty is not Iran's largest. Last year, for the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, authorities announced early releases for 50,000 prisoners. ap/mj/kir
schema:headline	Iran to free 10,000 prisoners in Persian New Year amnesty
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