The releases were announced as dozens of jailed Kurds continued a four-day-old hunger strike to protest against the "torture and inhumane treatment" they have suffered behind bars, said prominent lawyer and rights activist Anwar Bunni.
"Fifty-five political prisoners were transferred from Saydnaya prison (near Damascus) to a branch of military security where they were released," said the Syrian Human Rights Association on Saturday.
The association "welcomes this measure, and calls for the step to be completed by releasing all prisoners of conscience and to stop illegal arrests," the group said, publishing the names of 46 of those released.
Last December, 112 Syrian political prisoners,
most of them members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, were released following a presidential pardon.
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