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457 prisoners pardoned in Bahrain

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Update: 2024-09-06 12:05:23
457 prisoners pardoned in Bahrain Dissidents walk free as Bahrain pardons 457 prisoners.

Bahrain has pardoned hundreds of inmates, the second major amnesty in months, as the Gulf state moves to ease lingering tensions from its crushing of Arab Spring pro-democracy protests.

Scores of prisoners were released from a notorious Bahrain jail on Thursday following a royal pardon issued on Wednesday concerning 457 inmates, according to activists. They included dissidents detained following a crackdown on Shia-led protests from 2011, the Britain-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy said.

Source: Dawn

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