{"id":36682,"date":"2013-04-16T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=36682"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:06:59","slug":"syria-civil-warsyrian-president-al-assad-declared-a-general-amnesty-for-rebels-middle-east-news-36682","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/syria-civil-warsyrian-president-al-assad-declared-a-general-amnesty-for-rebels-middle-east-news-36682\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Civil War:Syrian President al-Assad declared a general amnesty for rebels \/ Middle East News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bashar-al-assad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36687\" title=\"bashar-al-assad-declared-general-amnesty\" alt=\"bashar-al-assad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bashar-al-assad.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bashar-al-assad.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bashar-al-assad-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bashar-al-assad-280x184.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bashar-al-assad-544x360.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al Assad has issued a general amnesty for crimes committed in the war-torn country until now ahead of a national holiday.<\/h1>\n<p>&#8220;President Assad has issued decree number 23, granting a general amnesty for crimes committed before April 16, 2013,&#8221; said the state news agency SANA.<\/p>\n<p>Under the decree, &#8220;the death penalty will be replaced with a life sentence of hard labour&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Assad has issued several pardons, including for those convicted of acts against the state, during the two-year crisis, usually ahead of national holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The latest decree comes on the eve of the anniversary of the 1946 withdrawal of French troops from Syria that marked the end of France&#8217;s mandate of the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s uprising began in March 2011 and has since turned into a civil war that has killed over 70,000 people, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al Assad has issued a general amnesty for crimes committed in the war-torn country until now ahead of a national holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,101,14],"tags":[49769,49771,49773,23698,9002,19016,49770,13262,48761,49772],"class_list":["post-36682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-world","tag-al-assad-declared-general-amnesty","tag-general-amnesty-for-rebels-syria","tag-middle-east-syria","tag-president-bashar-al-assad","tag-syria","tag-syria-civil-war","tag-syria-general-amnesty","tag-syrian-president","tag-syrian-president-al-assad","tag-syrian-president-president-bashar-al-assad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}