The deputy of international affairs and human rights of the minister of justice and the head of the convict transfer committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said that about 1,000 Afghan prisoners will be returned to their country in two months.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Askar Jalalian, Deputy Minister of Justice and Human Rights for International Affairs and Head of the Convict Transfer Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said on Wednesday during his trip to Afghanistan: The agreement on the transfer of convicts was concluded with Afghanistan in 2005. and the new ruling body of Afghanistan is also bound by this official agreement and now I am going to Kabul to negotiate the transfer of Afghan prisoners in Tehran and the transfer of Iranian prisoners in Afghanistan.
According to IRNA, he pointed out that relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Afghanistan are good in various fields, and the two nations share many common languages, and perhaps many ill-wishers are not interested in Iran's relations with its neighbors being wide and deep, but the two nations They have a deep relationship with each other and we must try to maintain these cordial relations between the two nations.
This judicial official of the Islamic Republic of Iran stated: neighboring countries are doomed to cooperate with each other and must try to remove the existing obstacles in order to cooperate with each other.
The head of Iran's Convict Transfer Committee also added: In the next two months, we plan to return a thousand Afghan prisoners to our country so that they can serve their sentences in their country, and the view of the Islamic Republic of Iran in this transfer is based on the principles and rules of human and human rights. because if these convicts are returned to their country and continue their sentence in their country; The possibility of their resocialization is provided.
This official of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stated: Most of these prisoners are convicted of drug crimes, and some of them have committed crimes for which the private aspect of the crime has been resolved and now they are serving time in prison for the public aspect of the crime.
He further emphasized: If a prisoner does not consent, he will not be returned to his country and he must have consent. On the other hand, these prisoners should not have private plaintiffs or debts, and their punishment should not be execution or retribution.
The Deputy Minister of Justice of Iran has stated: Only convicts will be transferred based on the agreement, whose sentence is imprisonment, and they must spend the rest of their sentence in the prisons of their respective countries.
He further stated: When these convicts are returned to their country, they can have minimal supervision over their families and property so that their families do not suffer more.
The Deputy Minister of International Affairs and Human Rights of Iran's Minister of Justice also said about Iranian prisoners in Afghanistan: According to the latest statistics, the number of Iranian prisoners in Afghanistan is less than 10, and we are trying to return them to the country in a logical way and based on the agreement. transfer
It should be mentioned that dozens of Afghan prisoners were handed over to Afghanistan in several stages last year.