The Amiri pardon opened the doors to freedom for to 200 inmates of the Central Prison — 70 citizens and 130 residents –who were serving time for various reasons.
A local Arabic daily said the Amiri pardon has also reduced the prison terms of many inmates, fines dropped, and 395 prisoners who were released will be deported from the country according to the stipulated rules and regulations. The expatriates who have been released are temporarily moved to the Deportation Center.
As soon as the persons covered by the pardon breathed freedom after their release, they expressed their joy at leaving the prison walls, raising the slogan ‘crime does not pay’ stressing that their release is a new birth for them and their families.
The families of the prisoners welcomed their children with great joy, interspersed with hugs and tears, expressing their happiness with the royal generosity that opened the doors of freedom for their children once again.
In this context, the Assistant Undersecretary for Correctional Institutions Affairs and Sentence Execution, Talal Ma’arafi, stressed, on the sidelines of the release of those covered by the amnesty, that the Amiri honor is praised by human rights organizations, stressing Kuwait’s keenness to devote human rights and rehabilitate the inmates of correctional institutions for a healthy life.
Ma’arafi added, “Every year, the royal honor includes the inmates of correctional institutions, alleviating their suffering from provisions that have burdened them, and penal fines that have exhausted them.”
