By RIA Novasti
Tbilisi : Georgia’s acting president, Nino Burdzhanadze, has pardoned a total of 195 prisoners, the country’s Ministry of Justice said on Monday.
“The pardoned prisoners were all released on the same day [January 13] and marked the Old-Style New Year [according to the Julian calendar, in use in Russia before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution] at home with their families,” the ministry said.
Up to 410 prisoners have been released in the latest two weeks in Georgia, including an opposition leader, Irakli Batiashvili, and former energy minister, David Mirtskhulava.
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