{"id":43890,"date":"2021-12-27T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=43890"},"modified":"2021-12-27T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:43:42","slug":"president-samia-pardons-more-than-5000-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-pardons-more-than-5000-prisoners","title":{"rendered":"President Samia pardons more than 5,000 prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has granted amnesty to 5,704 prisoners who were serving various sentences in different correctional facilities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the pardon to the public, Home Affairs Minister, George Simbachawene said President Samia has granted the executive clemency on condition that the inmates must have served a quarter of their sentence, but also if they were imprisoned before October 9, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The pardon is part of the nationwide celebrations to mark Tanzania&#8217;s 60 years of Independence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has granted amnesty to 5,704 prisoners who were serving various sentences in different correctional facilities across the country. Announcing the pardon to the public, Home Affairs Minister, George Simbachawene said President Samia has granted the executive clemency on condition that the inmates must have served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-43890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"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>President Samia pardons more than 5,000 prisoners - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dar es Salaam. 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