BEIRUT: Parliament’s Justice and Administration Committee announced Thursday that it had kick-started serious discussions on a conditional amnesty law for prisoners.
Speaking following a meeting at Nijmeh Square, the committee’s secretary, Baalbek-Hermel MP Nawar Sahli, said MPs from various blocs had for the “first time” engaged in a serious discussion of an amnesty, and urged inmates not to escalate their protest actions.
“We ask prisoners to consider today a new day – we don’t want to give them [false] hope, but we hope we’ll be able to arrive at an amnesty,” said Sahli.
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