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The commission is going to be made up of members of the military and the interior ministry as well as a general prosecutor, the official news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
It quoted Morsi as saying "this commission should be formed as soon as possible, to release all who were proved not involved in any criminal cases."
During last year’s deadly crackdown on protesters calling for the downfall of the Hosni Mubarak regime, a large number of Egyptians were imprisoned, many without being formally charged.
Meanwhile, former dictator Mubarak and his interior minister, Habib al-Adli, were sentenced to life in prison last month, as six police chiefs were acquitted for the murders of protesters during the revolution.
Mubarak and the seven other defendants were charged with ordering the killing of nearly 900 protesters during the popular uprising that ousted the dictator on February 11, 2011.
Morsi, who was officially sworn in as Egypt’s president on Saturday, has called on all Egyptians to unite, saying the revolution will continue.
"I call on you, great people of Egypt... to strengthen our national unity," he said in his first address following his electoral victory on Jun 24, adding that national unity "is the only way out of these difficult times."
Morsi, who quit the Muslim Brotherhood’s membership to run for president, paid tribute to the martyrs of the victorious revolution and emphasized that "the revolution continues."
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