Local officials in Nangarhar said that 60 prisoners including a woman were released from the central jail in the province in compliance with a presidential pardon decree yesterday. A press release from Nangarhar governor’s office stated that the prisoners were released based on presidential decree No. 110 that was issued on the country’s 98th Independence Day. Currently, about 1,718 prisoners, 42 of them women, who have been convicted of various crimes, are held at the central jail in Jalalabad, the provincial capital.
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