Regime decreed amnesty for prisoners

The Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad yesterday announced a "general amnesty" for all detainees during the uprising with no blood crimes, a measure that arouses mistrust in the opposition

In a new gesture to ease the pressure of the international community and, in particular of the Arab League, Al-Assad issued a decree that pardoning those people arrested since the protests began on March 15 last year and to date.

"Propaganda"
the opposing Jalil Haj Saleh, Member of the Syrian National Council (CNS), said in Cairo that amnesty is "an attempt to make propaganda and show the world that the regime is applying the initiative of the Arab League".

The release of all detainees in its relationship with the protests is one of the points of the Arab, Protocol accepted by Damascus, and that further, stipulates the cessation of violence and the withdrawal of the troops.

According to the u000aconnected Government by the official Sana News Agency, Al-Assad enacted "Legislative Decree number 10 of 2012 in which agrees to a general amnesty for crimes linked to the latest developments".

Pardon includes detainees for violations of the laws of peaceful demonstration, by possession of weapons and ammunition without authorization and "escape inner and outer".

However, those defendants who are escapees of Justice currently may not benefit from this measure of grace unless they delivered before 31 January.

Since November of last year, Al-Assad has issued several similar decrees partial amnesty to release "thousands of people whose hands are not stained in blood".

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