Plan to release inmates from desperately overcrowded prisons has provoked an all-too-familiar round of horse-trading that illustrates the country's chronic sectarianism

The amnesty draft law, repeatedly debated in parliament since its introduction in 2020, has been further delayed by fresh divisions that have continued since last April, amid…

Plan to release inmates from desperately overcrowded prisons has provoked an all-too-familiar round of horse-trading that illustrates the country's chronic sectarianism