{"id":174312,"date":"2022-05-04T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=174312"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:53:19","slug":"egypt-releases-986-prisoners-upon-presidential-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=174312","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Releases 986 Prisoners Upon Presidential Pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CAIRO, May 4 (NNN-MENA) &#8211; Egypt released 986 prisoners upon a presidential pardon, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move, which marks Eid al-Fitr on Monday, came two weeks after the release of 3,273 inmates, by the presidential decree on the occasion of Sinai Liberation Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Egyptian president, according to the country&#8217;s constitution, can issue pardon decrees for prisoners, who had received final unappealable court rulings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president usually issues a pardon decree on public holidays, including Muslim festivals, the holy month of Ramadan, and the July 23 Revolution Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered the reactivation of the presidential pardon committee, that was formed in 2016, to review releasing prisoners for non-terrorism-related crimes.&#8211; NNN-MENA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, May 4 (NNN-MENA) &#8211; Egypt released 986 prisoners upon a presidential pardon, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement, yesterday. The move, which marks Eid al-Fitr on Monday, came two weeks after the release of 3,273 inmates, by the presidential decree on the occasion of Sinai Liberation Day. The Egyptian president, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174313,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174312\/revisions\/174313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}