The Syrian government has released hundreds of detainees today, including some supporters of the armed opposition to President Bashar al Assad, on the occasion of the feast for the end of Ramadan, an act of amnesty that is repeated every year.
Said the Minister of Justice, Hisham at Shaar. The National Observatory for Human Rights (Ondus) has meanwhile reported that the Kurdish majority forces engaged in the offensive to snatch at Isis Raqqah have released for the same festivity 200 militia of the Islamic State that they had not stained with blood offences, in a relaxing sign towards the local Arab population in view of the formation of a new local authority after the end of the occupation of the ' caliphate '. The detainees issued by the government are 672, of which 91 women. Of these, 588 were in jail in Damascus.