DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Iran has temporarily freed about 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, a spokesman for its judiciary said Tuesday, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Some 50 percent of those released are security-related prisoners. … Also in the jails we have taken precautionary measures to confront the outbreak,” said Gholamhossein Esmaili.
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