Muscat: Talib Al Mamari, a Shura Council member representing Liwa province, was released from jail last Wednesday after being granted a royal pardon coinciding with the Al Isra’a Wal Miraj holiday, local media reported.
Sultan Qaboos issued a royal pardon to a number of prisoners convicted in different cases.
Al Mamari spent two years in jail out of three years after he was arrested for undermining the state, holding an illegal gathering and banditry in December 2013.
The Muscat Criminal Court had also slapped Al Maamari with a fine of 500 Omani rials along with the legal fees incurred in 2014.
On August 22, 2013, Omani authorities broke up a protest in Liwa decrying pollution coming from the nearby industrial areas in the port city of Sohar.
Al Maamari was detained in Sohar during the Arab Spring-style protests there in early 2011. He was eventually released without any conviction. He then ran for elections and won a seat in the Shura Council in 2011.
