Nawaf Salam directs the general amnesty law to be published in the Official Gazette

In this context, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called Aoun, appreciating his signing of the general amnesty law that the Lebanese had long awaited.

Joy spread throughout the Lebanese Roumieh prison after the general amnesty was approved.

Salam gave directives to the competent departments in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers to publish the law today, in a special issue of the Official Gazette.

Earlier, the Lebanese Parliament approved a long-awaited general amnesty law that is supposed to benefit a number of convicts, detainees and wanted persons, in the first decision of its kind since 1991.

The Presidency of Parliament announced in a statement at the time, “the adoption of a proposed law aimed at granting a general amnesty and reducing the duration of some punishments on an exceptional, modified basis.”