The head of the “Free Patriotic Movement,” MP Gebran Bassil, commented on the House of Representatives’ approval of the general amnesty law and the abolition of the death penalty, considering that Parliament recorded, at the same time, a positive step in the execution file and a “lapse against justice” in the amnesty file.
Bassil said, in a post on the “X” platform: “As soon as Lebanon recorded a bright spot in its record of abolishing the death penalty, it recorded a failure against justice when its parliament approved a general amnesty law for the third time, encouraging impunity, while a number of the oppressed are supposed to be exempted.”
Bassil addressed the government by saying: “How do you, O 24-member government, demand that the army fight Hezbollah and terrorism while you pardon its killers?”
Bassil’s position comes in the wake of the House of Representatives’ approval of the general amnesty law, which raised a series of different positions between welcoming it as a gateway to justice for the oppressed, and objecting to the formula that was approved and its implications for justice and preventing impunity.
