Some anti-government protesters pardoned in Iran

Global News Podcast

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei issued them in response to a proposal by the head of the judiciary. Also: Pakistan's former president and military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, has died in exile at the age of seventy-nine, and a prominent British family has paid reparations and apologised to Grenada for their historic links with the slave trade.

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:05.1	Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
0:06.4	This edition is published in the early hours of Monday,
0:08.5	the 6th of February.
0:09.9	Iran pardoned some prisoners arrested
0:12.2	during the recent wave of anti-government protests.
0:15.0	Pakistan's former military ruler, General Povez Musharraf,
0:18.7	has died in exile at the age of 79.
0:21.3	And...
0:22.2	When slavery was abolished,
0:24.0	slave-owning families like my own
0:26.5	were actually compensated for the fact
0:29.2	that they had lost what was referred to as their property.
0:32.0	That's how slaves were seen.
0:33.8	A prominent British family pays reparations
0:37.0	and apologises to the people of Grenada in the Caribbean.
0:43.4	Also in the podcast,
0:44.9	hundreds of wildfires in Chile
0:47.2	and deadly avalanches in Austria.
0:49.9	Plus, can Turkey's longstanding president hold on to power?
0:53.9	The protests, which erupted across Iran after the death of 22-year-old
1:02.4	Masa Aminien, September,
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