Lebanon gets 50 prisoners from the Syrian jails

The Lebanese prisoners who were released from the Syrian jails arrived in Beirut on Monday evening. They were released at a decision taken by President Bashar al-Assad.

Meantime, the commander of the banned " Lebanese forces " Samir Geagea asked the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud to interfere in order to amend the General Amnesty law so as to cover crimes he was convicted by in Lebanon, and according to which he spends hard-labor for life imprisonment. Geagea said that the Lebanese state " does not apply the Amnesty law." Lebanese sources said that the number of prisoners released by Syria on Monday tolled 50 persons who were transported from Damascus by coaches escorted in their way by military units of the Lebanese army.

The freed prisoners were put at the headquarters of the Lebanese ministry of defense for their files to be studied as from today.

Prior to their release, the Lebanese attorney general judge Adnan Adoum and the director of the intelligence department at the Lebanese army Rimond Azar visited Damascus, where they had met with high ranking Syria security officials.

Families of the released prisoners came on Monday at the land border point between Syria and Lebanon at Mahallet al-Masna', from various Lebanese areas carrying the pictures of their children or relatives.