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tabatha

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Tue Jan 3, 2012, 12:47 PM Jan 2012

Syria accused of reneging on Arab League pledge to release 700 prisoners

By: Nick Meo

Syria’s government has gone back on a pledge to release hundreds of political prisoners from its jails, according to a human rights group. The government had promised to release more than 700 detainees from jails last week as part of a peace plan drawn up by the Arab League.

Under the plan monitors have also been allowed to observe confrontations on Syria’s streets between protesters and security forces. More than 5,000 people have died since massive demonstrations against the regime started in March, including large numbers of protesters killed by security forces.

Thousands are also believed to have been detained, and the names of several hundred of them were given to the government with a request to let them out.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8986207/Syria-accused-of-reneging-on-Arab-League-pledge-to-release-700-prisoners.html

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