Syria Frees More Than 1,000 Protest-Linked Prisoners
Syria on Tuesday released from jail more than 1,000 prisoners who had been involved in anti-regime protests, state-run television said, amid reports that a top dissident, Kamal Labwani who was jailed for 12 years in May 2007, was also freed.
"1,180 prisoners who had been involved in the incidents in Syria and who did not have blood on their hands were released today," the state broadcaster said in a news flash.
Releasing prisoners is one of the points of an Arab League roadmap approved by Syria earlier this month to end the country's crisis, including an end to repression of pro-democracy protests.
Source: Agence France Presse
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