WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is considering pardoning some 3,000 people ''who may have been treated unfairly,'' including late heavy weight boxing champion Muhammad Ali.
Trump said he was considering a pardon for Ali, who died in 2016.
The boxer refused to be inducted into the U.S.Army in 1967, claiming conscientious objector status, and was sentenced to five years in prison.
He never went to prison while his case was under appeal and in 1971 the US Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
''I'm thinking about somebody that you all know and remember very well, and he went through a lot and he wasn't very popular then,'' Trump said. [Reuters].
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