Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 20 Irans Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi ordered a ban on prison leave for enemies of the Islamic Republic, including political prisoners and trouble-makers, a semi-official daily reported on Thursday.
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Tehran, Iran, Oct. 20 Irans Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi ordered a ban on prison leave for enemies of the Islamic Republic, including political prisoners and trouble-makers, a semi-official daily reported on Thursday.
Under the new order prisoners can no longer be granted temporary prison leave for various reasons, the hard-line daily Kayhan wrote.
Among those effected by the order are political opponents of the ruling theocracy, trouble-makers and seditious elements in society, and goods and drugs smugglers.
The daily quoted Mohammad-Reza Foulad-Amoli, the chief prosecutor in the northern province of Mazandaran, as saying, This decree will be carried out in order to prevent new corruption in society.
