Dubai, August 23: His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has ordered the release of 595 prisoners from the Dubai Punitive and Correctional Establishments on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. Sixty-two of those pardoned inmates were UAE nationals.
Dubai Attorney General Essam Al Humaidan expressed profound gratitude to Shaikh Mohammed for the humanitarian and social gesture which would have far-reaching good impact on the families of the released prisoners.
Al Humaidan said the public prosecution would coordinate with the Dubai Police and Dubai Punitive and Correctional Establishments to implement Shaikh Mohammed’s order.
–Agencies