AP reports that in Ethiopia on Saturday, the chief prosecutor pardoned around 1,000 convicts upon the approach of the Ethiopian New Year and Eid al-Adha. Among them were 135 Muslims convicted on anti-terrorism charges of religious extremism. The pardoned convicts had participated in months-long anti-government protests in 2012 when the government encouraged the teaching of the moderate
Al-Ahbash form of Islam and required that it be taught in an Addis Ababa religious school.
[Thanks to Scott Mange for the lead.]