據路透社當地時間3月9日報道,伊朗司法部長易卜拉欣·萊希(Ebrahim
Raisi)當天表示,由於新冠病毒疫情蔓延,伊朗已經釋放了大約7萬名囚犯
他說:“會繼續釋放囚犯,直到不會在社會中造成危險的程度。”他沒有說明囚犯們要什麽時候回去。
《衛報》9日報道稱,伊朗的許多囚犯被暫時釋放,因為他們擔心病毒會在監獄裏迅速蔓延。但是,釋放的決定隻適用於刑期少於五年的囚犯。大多數政治犯的刑期更長一些。
伊朗衛生部3月9日宣布,過去一天伊朗境內新增新冠肺炎感染者595例,累計7161例,新增死亡43例,累計237例,已治愈2394例。
8% of Iran’s parliament has the coronavirus,
and it released 54,000 prisoners as the country descends into chaos
https://t.co/aOX6tW1mPo via
@businessinsider— Nicholas Carlson (@nichcarlson)
March 4, 2020
#Iran Releases 70,000 Prisoners Amid More Deaths, Infections
https://t.co/huFRQqfHRQ— Asharq Al-Awsat English (@aawsat_eng)
March 9, 2020
Iran releases about 70,000 prisoners because
of coronavirus: judiciary chief https://t.co/yPCQkjJYe3— Reuters Iran (@ReutersIran)
March 9, 2020
“Iran is temporarily releasing tens of
thousands of prisoners in an attempt to prevent the spread of the
coronavirus in the country’s crowded prisons, as it struggles to
contain one of the worst outbreaks of a disease” https://t.co/sPQQB1sFTe— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar)
March 3, 2020
Many reports from
#Iran indicate the
#coronavirus spreading to various prisons across the
country.
The lives of prisoners are at risk.https://t.co/uScXwg4U6k— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm)
March 4, 2020
華客網:病毒迅速蔓延,伊朗釋放了7萬名囚犯(組圖)