Decree [Agreeing with a circular on amnesty of the convicts and prisoners]

In His Most Exalted Name

Your Highness Ayatullah al-`Uzma Imam Khomeini Founder of Islamic Republic of Iran, may your presence last long,

This letter is a request from you to grant amnesty on the occasion of the New Year.

All those who have been convicted by the general, revolution and army courts to taziri punishments such as fine, imprisonment or exile and their convictions have beome definitive up to 29 th of Esfand, are entitled to the amnesty of the great leader on the occasion of sixth anniversary of the Islamic Revolution as explained below on the condition that they are not villains. Their villainy will be decided by the public prosecutor executing the verdict.

(In continuation of the letter, the proposed cases along with the relevant criteria and conditions have been cited in nine articles and concluded as follows:)

Communication of this order by the mass media is regarded as official circular. Public prosecutor's offices are obliged to enforce the amnesty's regulations with regard to those who enjoy conditions provided in articles 3 and 4, part A and para 7, part A and B of this command up to the end of Esfand 1362, sending the result to the amnesty department as soon as possible.

Chief justice, `Abdul-Karim Mousawi Ardebili, 15/12/1362 AHS]

In His Most Exalted Name

I agree with this. «1»

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini

16/12/1362 AHS