4 Afghan prisoners moved to their country

Five Afghan nationals were transferred to their country, according to the Mehr News Agency.

Askar Jalalian, Deputy Minister of Human Rights and International Affairs Rapie The Convicts Transfer Committee said: “In the wake of the implementation of the convicts' transfer agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Afghanistan, five Afghan prisoners held in the Sistan and Baluchistan, Semnan, Yazd and Hormozgan prisons after the legal formalities and in cooperation with the Judiciary, the Prisons and the General Judiciary, the Prosecutor's Office.

Jalalian pointed out that most of their crimes were related to drugs, adding that the Committee on Transfer of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Department of Justice is determined to transfer a significant number of foreign nationals, especially nationals of Malaysia, Pakistan, Turkey and Afghanistan, to continue their sentences. This will continue in line with the implementation of the law and the humanitarian goals of the Ministry of Justice, and if the treaties of the treaty cooperate, more than a thousand foreign prisoners will be transferred by June to June.