UAE president pardons hundreds of prisoners ahead of Ramadan
540 prisoners in the country set to be released and start new lives
Part of President Khalifa’s initiative to ease suffering of prisoners' families
Updated 28 March 2022
Arab News
DUBAI: UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has ordered the release of 540 prisoners in the country, ahead of Ramadan, state news agency WAM reported.
The annual move serves as part of President Khalifa’s initiative to give pardoned inmates an opportunity to start a new life and ease the suffering of their families, the report added.
ISTANBUL: Some 115 alleged members of the Daesh group suspected of planning attacks during the end of year holidays have been arrested in Turkiye, Istanbul’s prosecutor general said Thursday. “Following intelligence indicating that the Daesh terrorist organization was planning attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations,” the prosecutor’s office ordered the detention of 137 people, 115 of whom have been arrested, the Istanbul prosecutor general’s office said in a statement. Turkiye shares a 900-kilometer (559-mile) border with Syria, where militants groups are still active and where the IS was accused of an attack in mid-December that killed two US soldiers and one civilian.
