The President of the Prisoners and Families Care Commission at Dar al-Fatwa, Lawyer Hassan Kichli, issued a call via Tele Liban for the swift enactment of a comprehensive general amnesty law “today rather than tomorrow.” He emphasized that this is essential to ensure a humanitarian and fair resolution to the crisis involving prisons and detainees.
Kichli also proposed several specific legal reforms to promote justice and equity, including:
Capping the Death Penalty: Setting a maximum limit of 20 years.
Capping Life Imprisonment: Setting a maximum limit of 15 years.
Reducing the “Prison Year”: Shortening the legal definition of a prison year to 6 months.
Mandatory Consolidation: Making the merging of sentences (concurrency) mandatory.