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“I am sorry for the way we are all heading, and we are afraid to get to a place where we will tell the prisoners that we cannot help them,” Berri said.
Berri explained that there are 237 Corona cases in Zahle prison and Roumieh prison, they have become many, and it has a capacity of 1,200 people and sleeps in the corridors, and the proposal for a general amnesty law is not a Holy Quran or a Holy Bible, and I’m afraid that out of 900 beds for emergencies there are 100 for 150 beds, so we were patient and we set up a committee and it worked, and there is an article 9 in the proposal that does not agree.
The next session will be on October 20, and I am obliged to elect the members of the Council on the first Tuesday after the 15th of the month, indicating that in the next session the members of the Supreme Council who presented their resignations, negotiators, will be elected. secretaries and oaths, and then a session was opened. Legislation, including the amnesty law, and any suggestion that the clemency committee headed by Vice President Elie Ferzli might reach a conclusion, even earlier.
The plenary session of the Lebanese Parliament began today, Wednesday, at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut, instead of the main headquarters of the Council due to the damage caused by the explosion of the port of Beirut.
According to parliamentary sources, there were 40 items on the agenda for today’s session, 5 draft bills and 35 urgent bills, among which the general amnesty law stands out..
As a result of the serious disagreement between the blocs on the amnesty law, the Speaker of the Parliament, Nabih Berri, withdrew the provision of the general amnesty law from the legislative session.
