Declaration of a general amnesty and granting of special amnesty measures in Lebanon

Type

Decision

Number

305

Date of the text

30/12/1936

Official Gazette

published in 1937

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

9

What it provides

This decree grants a general amnesty in Lebanon for offences committed before 25 June 1936, covering assembly, electoral, press, public order and some penal and customs offences, allows High Commissioner decisions to grant special amnesty to certain convicts, does not bar retrial to prove innocence, and preserves third

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1937. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.