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China and Syria have announced plans to upgrade their relationship to a strategic partnership. This comes after a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Hangzhou. China has expressed its willingness to work with Syria in the interests of friendly cooperation and safeguarding international fairness and justice.

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SOHR said that thousands of detainees are still languishing in the prisons of the Damascus government, after the so-called Presidential Pardon amid absence of official lists of those released and specific places to hand them over.