Law Granting General Amnesty for Offences Specified Between This Law and Those Committed Before 3-9-1945

Type

Law

Date of the text

14/11/1945

Official Gazette

published in 1945

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

7

What it provides

This law grants a general amnesty for all misdemeanours and specified offences committed before 3 September 1945, excluding serious crimes such as theft, forgery, fraud and drug offences, and reduces criminal sentences while commuting the death penalty. It does not cover state-security offences, disqualification from p

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1945. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.