TEHRAN – Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Ejei has said all those “convicts” who participated in any way in the riot acts in the January unrest will not be amnestied.

“I have ordered to remove the names of all those convicts who were somehow involved in ‘security issues’ from the list of amnesties,” Ejei wrote on X on Sunday. 

The remarks by the top judge came as every year, concurrent with the anniversary of the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, certain convicts are granted amnesty or their prison sentences are commuted.

Ejei also dismissed reports that many of those who were detained last month had been amnestied in the fall of 2022. 

In Tehran province, just four individuals were among those who had been detained in 2022, and this is more or less the same across the country, the Judiciary chief pointed out. 

The 2022 unrest is related to the death of Mahsa Amini, a 21-year-old woman from the Kurdish city of Saqqez, who fainted in police custody in Tehran and later died in hospital.