Press TV - 10/9/12
Egyptian riot police clash with protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on November 19, 2011.
Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, has pardoned all political prisoners arrested since the start of last year's popular revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, has pardoned all political prisoners arrested since the start of last year's popular revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
On Monday, a decree, published on the president’s official Facebook page, announced the amnesty for “deeds committed with the aim of supporting the revolution and bringing about its objectives in the period January 25, 2011 to June 30, 2012, with the exception of crimes of first-degree murder."
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