Syrian President Bashar Assad declared a general amnesty Monday for prisoners in the country, state media reported.
It was not clear how many — if any — prisoners would be freed after the presidential decree, issued just five days after Assad had won a third, seven-year term in office amid the 3-year-old civil war in his country.
The official SANA news agency did not say if the amnesty would apply to the tens of thousands of opposition supporters and their relatives activists say are held in the country. However, SANA’s report suggested it would reduce prisoners’ sentences without freeing them.
Syria’s pro-government Al Ikhbariya television station quoted the justice minister as saying that the presidential decree was issued in the "context of social tolerance and national unity".
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