MEKELE, TIGRAY (Walta Woyanne Information Center – WIC):  Tigray Regional State  of northern Ethiopia sets free 2167 prisoners with official pardon yesterday.

Meseret Gebremariam, Regional Security and Administration Bureau Head, disclosed that the prisoners are released owing to the nations and nationalities day celebrated on November 29 E.C. every year.

Of the individuals freed, 512 have satisfied the preconditions that enable them to reconcile with the people against whom they inflicted harms, the head added.

The Constitution does not allow pardon for individuls who committed crimes in connection with corruption, causing fire and destruction of forests, he underlined and went on to add, those who destroyed telephone and power infrastructures have not received pardon.

The prisoners were released to give them the opportunity to pay back the harm they caused through development efforts on their part, the head said and went on to call upon the public to extend their usual cooperation in facilitating the gesture.