Mnangagwa Grants Amnesty to Thousands of Non-Violent Inmates NewZimbabweCom: Zimbabwe
The prisoners who were granted amnesty include terminally ill female prisoners and juveniles who are not serving specified offences.
This was revealed in a Statutory Instrument of an Extraordinary Government Gazette published earlier this week by the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs in terms of the Constitution. "Full remission of the remaining period is hereby granted to all those inmates who would have served life imprisonment for at least twenty years. This includes inmates sentenced to life imprisonment; inmates whose sentences were commuted from death to life imprisonment. In this case, the period of 20 years will include the period when the inmate was serving as a Prisoner under sentence of death; inmates whose sentences were altered to life imprisonment on appeal or review.
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