DAMASCUS: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad announced an unprecedented prisoner amnesty on Monday (Tuesday in Manila), less than a week after his reelection, the most wide-ranging since the revolt against him began.
Announced five days after Assad was reelected with nearly 90 percent in a ballot decried as a “farce” by the opposition and the West, the amnesty is the first extended to those accused under a controversial anti-terrorism law.
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