President Bashar Assad's government has released 61 womenover the past two days as part of the Qatari- andTurkish-brokered deal, the British-based Syrian Observatory forHuman Rights said.
A Syrian court also granted amnesty to Tal al-Mallohi, ablogger arrested while in her late teens more than a year beforethe revolt in Syria began in March 2011, the Observatory said.
Mallohi, the grand-daughter of a former minister, wasdetained for political writing in 2009. The pro-oppositionObservatory said her release was imminent.