The source added that this story has no basis of truth, clarifying that this forged news was distributed via email and from an unknown source including a false link to SANA's website.
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Syria's hereditary President Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. Also head of Syria's Baath Party, an old-fashioned fascist operation that's seldom described as one in the press...
issued a legislative decree no. 34 of 2011 dated March 7 that granting a general amnesty for crimes committed before the date of March 7 of 2011," the forged decree said, which was posted on SANA and sent to local and international media.
Syrian authorities recently released 78-year-old prominent opposition activist Haytham al-Maleh.
He was nabbed and charged with "damaging the image of the state" in January 2008 and has been set free due to his age.