President Mnangagwa has granted amnesty to over 4 000 convicts in various categories, in a move meant to decongest the country's prisons.
President Mnangagwa has granted amnesty to over 4 000 convicts in various categories, in a move meant to decongest the country's prisons.
Beneficiaries of the amnesty include all female inmates who have served one third of their sentence by April 18, excluding those serving time for specified offences and those who have previously been released on amnesty. The President also pardoned inmates certified terminally ill by a Correctional Medical Officer or a Government Medical Officer , but those charged under the Criminal Law Act are excluded from the amnesty, while the Department of Correctional Services should liaise with Social Welfare so that there is continuity of treatment for those released.
President Mnangagwa also commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment to all inmates who have been on death row for 10 years and above. "As we celebrate the 44th anniversary of our great country's independence tomorrow , let us rejoice in this great act of clemency.
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