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التيار الوطني الحر
Prosecution strives to free prisoner
The article focused on the efforts of the Lebanese Public Prosecution to secure the release of Sheikh Ahmed Al-Asir, who has spent 17 years in prison after recent judicial interpretations considered the duration of detention under general amnesty laws and the abolition of the death penalty. It also discussed the legal analysis developed by Prosecutor General Muhammad Sabb, which differentiates between various categories of convicted individuals, confirming that the final sentence for those sentenced to death— which was commuted to life imprisonment— now includes Sheikh Al-Asir. This means he is expected to be released in about 9 years, not after a year and a half as previously anticipated before the Constitutional Council’s reinterpretations. The Public Prosecution, led by Prosecutor General Ahmed Rami Al-Hajj, is working to establish legal and procedural mechanisms to address these interpretations amid escalating popular and political protests by Al-Asir’s supporters and neutral regions. They regard him as a symbol of the issue concerning detained Islamist detainees.
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