Oct. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Egypt, Abdelfatá al Sisi, has approved a decree granting pardon to more than 1,500 prisoners on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, as confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior.
The ministry has indicated that a total of 1,557 prisoners will benefit from the measure and has stressed that it reflects the “firm intention” of “establishing a modern punitive policy and promoting maximum care for inmates in correctional centers.”
Likewise, several of the beneficiaries have appeared in a video published by the Ministry of the Interior in which they thank Al Sisi for the pardon, following a series of releases and commutations of sentences on the occasion of religious and national holidays, according to has picked up the Egyptian newspaper ‘Al Ahram’.
In April, the Egyptian president called for a national dialogue and reactivated the Presidential Pardon Committee, which has led to the release of hundreds of prisoners and people detained awaiting trial through presidential decrees or decisions by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Al Sisi came to power in July 2013 through a coup that he led after a series of massive demonstrations against the then president, the Islamist Mohamed Mursi, the first democratically elected president in the country and who died in 2019 during a court hearing against him. .
The leader has promoted a broad campaign of repression and persecution against opponents, both liberal groups and Islamist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, an initiative that Human Rights groups have denounced as the most serious in recent times.
