“Red TV”
In a new social and legal episode of Meeting 315, journalist Morga Haboushi opens the file of the general amnesty law, and presents it to the most difficult questions: Who benefits from the amnesty? Who stays out? What about the rights of the victim and her family?
With the appellate lawyer and head of the Justice Without Borders Association, Wissam Hassan Khalil, we discuss the legal meaning of a general amnesty, the difference between dropping a sentence and erasing the traces of a crime, and we ask about the fate of detainees who spent years without trial, and the extent of the fairness of placing different files under one law.
But justice is not only about who gets out of prison… but also about who remains outside prison bearing the trace of the crime.
Can the state pardon in the name of the victim? Does the amnesty actually address the prison crisis and overcrowding, or does it hide a failure in trials and speeding up justice?
An episode that puts the state, the law, and the victim before one question: Is a general amnesty an exception to justice for the oppressed… or does it become, with time, a door to escaping punishment?
