Taking into account health, marital status of the convicts, the nature and degree of public danger of the crimes they committed, the length of their sentences and their behavior during that period, in total 625 people on 8 items were pardoned according to the Presidential Order “On pardoning a number of convicts”.

Of them, 475 convicts were released from the unserved part of their sentences, unserved parts of sentences of 98 convicts were halved, and the sentences of 3 people sentenced to life imprisonment were replaced by 25 years of imprisonment, also 2 convicts and1 person sentenced to pay a fine were released on parole.

In total, 774 convicts, including minors, women, the elderly, people with disabilities, people suffering from various diseases and others were pardoned and released at the motion of the Ombudsman.