U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he had pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, who had been convicted of making false statements on a gun background check and illegally possessing a firearm and pled guilty to federal tax charges.

"I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted", Biden said in a statement released by the White House. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The president had previously pledged not to pardon his son, but said he changed his mind because Hunter had been ‘unfairly prosecuted’