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King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned more than 650 people convicted of various crimes, some of them terrorist-related, local media reported.
The Moroccan Ministry of Justice has released the list of those who have benefited from royal pardon this year. Those pardoned include 16 people who had been convicted in cases of extremism and terrorism in the past.
However, King Mohammed VI granted the pardon to these prisoners after they had “officially expressed their adherence to the unwavering and sacred constants of the nation and national institutions, revised their ideological orientations and rejected extremism and terrorism”, as the Ministry of Justice pointed out.
The move marks the 70th anniversary of an event known as the Revolution of the King and the Nation.
The Revolution of the King and the Nation was a Moroccan anti-colonial national liberation movement with the goal of ending the French Protectorate and the Spanish Protectorate in order to break free from colonial rule.
