APA-Dakar (Senegal) Senegalese leader Macky Sall has pardoned 586 prisoners in the spirit of the Muslim festivities marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Muslims in Senegal will mark Eid on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 April.
As is customary in Senegal, prisoners have benefited from the presidential pardon on the occasion of Eid el-Fitr.
The inmates pardoned by President Sall were convicted of various offenses, Justice Minister, Ismaila Madior tweeted.
“On the eve of the Koriteh holiday, His Excellency Mr. Macky SALL, President of the Republic, in accordance with the Constitution and faithful to the republican tradition, has granted a pardon to five hundred and eighty-six (586) people convicted of various offences,” Fall wrote.
On the occasion of the country’s 63rd anniversary of independence weeks ago, President Sall also granted clemency to 824 other prisoners.
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