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The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented the release of 547 detainees from Syrian prisons during the period between early May till mid-June.
It stressed in a report on Saturday that there are some 132,000 people still detained or held in regime prison.
The report confirmed that between May 1 and June 13, amongst those released were 61 women and 16 people who were children at the time they were arrested.
A presidential decree called in May for “granting a general amnesty for terrorist crimes committed by Syrians” before April 30, 2022, “except for those leading to the death of a person.”
According to the report, among those released, at least 158 had seen their security situation adjusted before being arrested and had been granted a settlement pledge that they would not be aggressed by security branches.
Also, 28 people were arrested after returning to Syria, having been refugees and residents outside the country. These included four women, the report said.
The network called on the international community to pressure the Assad regime to release the people who are still detained or held in regime prisons, including 87,000 people who are among the forcibly disappeared.
It also demanded that the regime cancels its exceptional courts and nullify all its verdicts that violate many of the basic rights of the Syrian citizens.
They ruled out the implementation of any of these demands without a political transition that ends the tyranny and brutality of the security services.
