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Monday, March 27, 2017
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Monday, March 27, 2017
President nixes pardon for ex-PM Olmert
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePresident Reuven Rivlin rejects a pardon request from former prime minister Ehud Olmert, who is serving a 26-month jail sentence on various corruption charges.
The decision comes two weeks after Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked requested the ex-premier be released, even as her ministry recommended against it.
In January, Olmert requested a pardon, with his lawyers writing in a letter to the president that Olmert had “suffered enough” and that “the time has come to end the suffering of Ehud Olmert as an act of mercy.”
He began serving his sentence at Ma’asiyahu Prison in Ramle in February 2016.
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