- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

Syrian President Assad Amnesties Army Deserters

© AFP 2023 / HO / SANAA handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) and taken in Damascus
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) and taken in Damascus - Sputnik International
Subscribe
Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a decree that grants amnesty on the full penalty for those who have deserted.

Syrians walk past a giant campaign billboard of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on June 1, 2014 in the capital Damascus - Sputnik International
No Solution to Syria Crisis Without Assad – French Politician
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Syrian President Bashar Assad has issued a decree amnestying army deserters in and out of the conflict-torn country, local media cited the legal document Saturday.

"The decree grants amnesty on the full penalty for those who have deserted inside the country [and] those who have deserted outside the country," the decree, published on the Syrian TV website, stated.

According to the Syrian Arab News Agency, local deserters have 30 days to turn themselves in to the authorities. Deserters from abroad have a 60-day deadline to do the same.

Amnesty decrees in Syria are issued several times a year, the latest being the fifth so far in 2015.

Syrian fighters with the Free Syria Army (FSA) man one of their positions during skirmishes with government forces in the Seif al-Dawla district in Aleppo on September 4, 2012 - Sputnik International
Damascus Ready to Continue Dialogue With Peaceful Opposition
Rights advocates estimate that Syrian prisons house approximately 18,000 inmates.

Syrian government forces have been engaged in conflict with several local and foreign armed groups, including the notorious Islamic State jihadists and the Nusra Front, since 2011.

Estimates on the death toll from the Syrian civil war range from 220,000 to 320,000, according to the United Nations and the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Both groups believe the number of those displaced from the conflict exceeds 12 million people.

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала