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Lebanon Approves General Amnesty Law Amid Prison Overcrowding
Kathmandu— Lebanon’s parliament approved a general amnesty law on Wednesday that will reduce prison terms for many convicted individuals and release detainees, addressing severe overcrowding in the nation's prisons. The first such legislation since 1991 passed via a show-of-hands vote, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, and follows closely after the parliament formally abolished the […]
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Source:ABC News
Entity Extraction
Persons Mentioned (2)
Walid BaariniImad al-Hout
Organizations (4)
HezbollahAl JazeeraLebanon's National News AgencyLebanon’s National Human Rights Commission
Locations (6)
HermelTripoliKathmanduLebanonSyriaBaalbek
Categorization & Context
Primary Domain
law and judiciary
Event Nature
legislative vote or passage
Event Format
standard news report
All Categories
law
Key Phrases
- •prison overcrowding
- •Imad al-Hout
- •Walid Baarini
- •civil war
- •amnesty law
- •human rights
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Hermel
Tripoli
Kathmandu
Lebanon
Syria
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