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Syria: 60 prisoners released as part of an unprecedented amnesty

2022-05-02T12:18:49.559Z


Syrian authorities have released around 60 detainees since Sunday under a new amnesty decree considered the most...


The Syrian authorities have released around 60 detainees since Sunday under a new amnesty decree considered the most comprehensive since the start of the conflict and which applies to crimes linked to "

terrorism

", indicated on Monday May 2 a Syrian NGO.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had already announced several amnesties since the start of the war in 2011, which included numerous exceptions, the last of which was in May 2021, a few weeks before his re-election for a fourth term.

"

More than 60 detainees have been released since Sunday in several Syrian regions, some of whom have spent at least ten years

" in the regime's prisons, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).

“Tens of thousands of detainees” eligible

The decree provides "

to grant a general amnesty for terrorist crimes committed by Syrians

" before April 30, 2022, "

with the exception of those resulting in the death of a human being and those provided for by the anti-terrorism law

", the Syrian presidency said on social media on Saturday.

This new decree, published on Saturday - two days before the Eid-el-Fitr holiday which celebrates the end of Ramadan - is considered by human rights activists to be the most comprehensive.

According to the director of the OSDH, Rami Abdel Rahmane, "

tens of thousands of detainees

" are eligible, many of whom are accused of crimes related to "

terrorism

".

Rami Abdel Rahmane describes this accusation as "

vague

" to "

convict the detainees arrested arbitrarily

".

Lawyer Nora Ghazi, director of the organization "

No Photo Zone

" which provides legal assistance to detainees, the disappeared and their families, considered that this decree had the "

broadest framework since the beginning of the Syrian revolution

".

"

A lot of people are expected, but it will take a long time

," she said.

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According to a list of 20 names circulated by activists on social media, detainees who spent years in Sednaya prison, which Amnesty International called a "

human slaughterhouse

", are among those released.

Since the beginning of the conflict, nearly half a million people have entered the regime's prisons and more than a hundred thousand of them have died under torture or as a result of appalling conditions of detention, according to the OSDH .

The Syrian regime is also accused of torture in prisons, rape and sexual assault, as well as extrajudicial executions.

Source: lefigaro

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