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Syria denies rumors on presidential amnesty on political prisoners |
2011-03-12 |
(Xinhua) -- The official Syrian SANA news agency denied Thursday a report published by some websites about what it claimed as a legislative decree concerning the issuance of a general amnesty on political prisoners and attributed to SANA. The source added that this story has no basis of truth, clarifying that this forged news was distributed via email and from an unknown source including a false link to SANA's website. "Syria's hereditary President Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. Also head of Syria's Baath Party, an old-fashioned fascist operation that's seldom described as one in the press... issued a legislative decree no. 34 of 2011 dated March 7 that granting a general amnesty for crimes committed before the date of March 7 of 2011," the forged decree said, which was posted on SANA and sent to local and international media. Syrian authorities recently released 78-year-old prominent opposition activist Haytham al-Maleh. He was nabbed and charged with "damaging the image of the state" in January 2008 and has been set free due to his age. |
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