TEHRAN - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has earmarked 20 billion rials (some $40,000) for releasing prisoners of unintentional crimes.

Each year in the holy month of Ramadan, officials and benefactors hold gatherings to raise money to help release prisoners of unintentional crime.
On the occasion of National Father’s Day, which fell on January 25 this year, a total of 534 prisoners of unintentional crimes were freed across the country.

In Iran, Father’s Day falls on the thirteenth day of the lunar calendar month of Rajab, the birthday anniversary of Imam Ali (AS), the first Shia Imam.

In this line, a nationwide campaign, titled ‘In the Name of Father’, was held from January 3 to 24, during which 37 female and 497 male prisoners were released.

The total debt of the released prisoners was 6,665 billion rials (about $13.3 million).

On January 5, with the participation of altruists and benevolent people, a total of 2,548 prisoners of unintentional crimes were released from prisons nationwide.
In March 2023, heads of the three branches of the government donated sums of money to help release prisoners of unintentional crimes.

President Ebrahim Raisi, Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, and Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf allocated a total of 8.6 billion rials (about $17,000) for the issue, IRNA reported.

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