Africa-Press – Cape verde. The President of the Republic, José Maria Neves, granted pardons to 11 prisoners in the country’s prisons, as part of the Father’s Day celebrations. The decision benefited prisoners who meet the pre-established requirements, as reported by the Presidency this Thursday.
According to the same source, pardoned prisoners will be monitored by Social Reintegration Services until they have fully served their originally decreed sentences.
This decision, embodied in Presidential Decree No. 06/2025 of March 19, published in the Official Gazette No. 21, Series I, of March 20, 2025, upon proposal by the Government.
The clemency measure covers prisoners sentenced to a custodial sentence of no more than eight years who, by December 31, 2023, have served 2/3 (two thirds) of the sentence, as well as those sentenced to a custodial sentence of more than eight years who, by the same date, have reached sixty years of age and served half of the sentence.
Also included are prisoners suffering from a serious and incurable illness or a highly incapacitating physical or mental condition, duly proven by a medical entity, and who require continuous care that is impossible to provide in a prison establishment.
Prisoners convicted of crimes of torture, terrorism, homicide, crimes against the State, drug trafficking, gender-based violence or crimes committed against the elderly and children, money laundering and other forms of organized crime are excluded from this pardon measure. Individuals under security measures, provisional detainees, repeat offenders or those with pending proceedings in which preventive detention has been determined are also excluded.
The present pardon, according to the Presidential Decree, “is granted under the condition that the pardoned person does not commit a willful offense in the three years following the date of entry into force of this Presidential Decree, in which case the penalty applied for the subsequent offense will be added to the pardoned penalty”.
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