Representative Ashraf Rifi raised his position on the approach to the general amnesty bill in the House of Representatives, calling on sovereign representatives, especially Sunni representatives, to boycott any legislative session in which the law is not the first item on the agenda.
Rifi said, in a post on the “X” platform, which he began with the phrase, “The suspicious person almost said, ‘Take me.’” That intentions appeared from the first moment to include the general amnesty bill at the end of the parliamentary session’s agenda.
He added that these doubts were confirmed, as he put it, after the “other team” insisted on submitting the draft abolition of the death penalty to the amnesty law, considering that the draft includes “legislative traps” aimed at aborting the general amnesty or emptying it of its content.
Rifi called on his fellow sovereign representatives, especially Sunni representatives, to take a unified position not to participate in any legislative session in which the general amnesty law does not top the agenda, stressing the need for any other item not to take precedence over it, especially the draft abolition of the death penalty.
He addressed the “other team” by saying: “Enough of the cleverness, and consider it one of the transformations in the region,” stressing that a general amnesty is “a national and human right,” and that it will not be allowed to become a victim of political maneuvers or legislative traps.
Rifi’s position comes in light of the escalation of parliamentary disagreements regarding the priority of proposing the general amnesty law, the categories that will be included, and the conditions and exceptions that will be included within it, amid fear among his supporters that it will be linked to other legal projects or the introduction of amendments that will lead to its disruption or overthrow.
The general amnesty file had sparked a wide division within Parliament, especially regarding the Islamist detainees, merging sentences, reducing penalties, drug crimes, and fleeing to Israel, at a time when the families of the detainees are pressing to demand the adoption of the law and an end to the conditions of those who spent long years in prison without a trial or the issuance of final rulings against them.
