Assad Offers Amnesty To Syrian Opponents -- Al Jazeera
President's offer covers inmates, defectors and foreigners but rights groups say other decrees have not been honoured.
Bashar al-Assad has announced a general amnesty for prisoners, less than a week after he was re-elected to another seven-year term as Syria's president, state media reported.
Assad's decree, released on Monday, said pardons will be offered to those accused of "terrorist acts" or those who "set up a group aimed at changing the economic or social nature of the state".
Al Jazeera's Rula Amin, reporting from neighbouring Lebanon, said the amnesty offers reduced sentences and full pardons for a number of crimes.
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My Comment: My prediction .... no one is go to be released.
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