Iran's top leader will pardon 10,000 more prisoners in an apparent effort to combat the coronavirus, Iranian state TV reported Thursday.
The report quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili as saying that 10,000 prisoners - among them an unknown number of security related inmates - will be granted amnesty under a decree by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the occasion of the Iranian new year, called Nowruz.