{"id":17211,"date":"2023-05-20T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/zimbabwean-president-pardons-over-4000-prisoners-ahead-of-elections"},"modified":"2023-05-20T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T16:34:08","slug":"zimbabwean-president-pardons-over-4000-prisoners-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/zimbabwean-president-pardons-over-4000-prisoners-ahead-of-elections","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean president pardons over 4,000 prisoners ahead of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwean authorities released on Friday a total of 4,270 prison inmates following a presidential amnesty ahead of general elections later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to appeal to society at large to embrace and accept the inmates who have been released,&#8221; Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those aggrieved are encouraged to forgive them,&#8221; ZPCS added. The African country&#8217;s over 50 detention centers have a capacity to hold about 17,000 prisoners, but held more than 22,000 before the pardon.<\/p>\n<p>ZPCS spokesperson Meya Khanyezi, however, rejected an impression that the move was not meant to decongest jails, saying it was a noble gesture by the president.<\/p>\n<p>The amnesty was granted to different groups of prisoners including those who have served at least three-quarters of their sentence or one-tenth if over the age of 60.<\/p>\n<p>But violent criminals and those serving time for robbery, treason and public order, and security offenses were excluded. President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted a similar amnesty in 2020 to stem the spread of coronavirus in detention facilities.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\">Eritrea<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. Zimbabwean authorities released on Friday a total of 4,270 prison inmates following a presidential amnesty ahead of general elections later this year. &#8220;We would like to appeal to society at large to embrace and accept the inmates who have been released,&#8221; Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) said in a statement. &#8220;Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[242,243,2193,233,2194,658],"class_list":["post-17211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eritrea","tag-amnesty","tag-eritrea","tag-presidential-pardon","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zimbabwean president pardons over 4,000 prisoners ahead of elections - 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