Bashar Assad declared a General Amnesty
Bashar Assad after the victory in the presidential race has issued its own 1st Decree. Having entered on 3 the term he used in Syria General Amnesty.

Bashar Assad after the victory in the presidential race has issued its own 1st Decree. Having entered on 3 the term he used in Syria General Amnesty.
In the past 3 June elections unconditional majority of votes obtained by the incumbent President powers Bashar Assad. After the Preface to the position in the 3rd time again he decreed a General Amnesty. Previously these decisions he took in 2012, 2011 and 2013, informs ITAR-TASS.
The last time the head of the Arab Republic has announced Amnesty for desertion and evasion of military service. Then there is an appropriate measure was extended to offences committed before October 29, 2013. In the same year, the Syrian President also issued a Decree on Amnesty on April 16. It was noted that sentenced to death "will face a sanction in the form of compulsory labour". Observers believed that the decree Assad is considered part of the program Syrian control situation in the country.
Syrian Amnesty in early January 2012 has been limited - it extended to those people who participated in peaceful demonstrations, and on deserters and owners of weapon without his permission. The Amnesty process of the end of December 2011 from prison were released 755 people. A month earlier Assad has released about a thousand prisoners.
Anti-government protests in Syria started in early March 2011. The authorities responded to the protests aggressive and used to disperse demonstrations in the army and, in consequence, the country practically started the civil war. According to reliable information the United Nations, to the end of 2011 in the process of conflict between government forces and opponents of the Assad regime in Syria killed more than 5 thousand people.
For the first time Bashar Assad was elected head of the country in 2000, with all this earlier elections were held on a non-alternative basis. But in early March 2014 the Syrian Parliament adopted a new law on elections, which made a number of important changes to the electoral law of the state. For example, according to the new law, to the post of President can run several candidates.
Presidential elections took place against the background of the civil war, continued in Syria since 2011 and claimed the lives of about 160 thousand people. Western powers previously made a sudden criticism Assad, calling his decision to hold the elections in such conditions and to run for a 3rd term destabilizing moment for situation in the country.