Syrian president grants general amnesty

Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad allowed a general acquittal, blanket criminal acts perpetrated before Oct 29, a media report said The new presidential exculpation blankets criminal acts specified in the military administration law, incorporating those of escaping from the obligatory administration, reported Xinhua, spelling no further items if the absolution blankets different wrongdoings aside from the military ones. Assad has prior issued numerous pardons that secured numerous wrongdoings notwithstanding the military ones. The new move came as arrangements for the Geneva Ii gathering on Syria which tries to uncover a political answer for the long-standing clash in the nation.