I am declaring a general amnesty.

Quoting Amnesty International, he added

President Vladimir Voronin later granted the detainees amnesty.

However he showed a lack of interest in ruling.

In 1958, he benefited from the amnesty and returned to Lebanon.

The programme does not offer an unconditional amnesty or immunity from prosecution.

Negotiating a life saving peace may mean giving amnesty to the murderously guilty.

But Yingluck s subsequent attempt to backtrack on the amnesty measure failed to mollify the opposition.

quot The Committee has noted that some States have granted amnesty in respect of acts of torture.

He received a pardon, a bounty from the crown, and was restored to normal life.

He extended a political amnesty, and legitimized his rule by winning the 1862 elections.

The Kremlin closed its eyes to Kadryov s amnesty of former guerrillas and their inclusion in his paramilitary units.

(c) Acknowledging the right of the King to give partial or complete amnesty as provided by article 27 of the Constitution

Two years later they were released from prison, as Louis Botha recognised the value of reconciliation.

The promulgation of various laws and legislative decrees comprising a general amnesty for ordinary, political and economic offences

Despite the amnesty declared by the Government, the situation of demobilized personnel has not led to true peace.

Kadyrov promised Zakaev amnesty and various positions ranging from director of the local theater to Minister of Culture.

Following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, the Government declared a general amnesty benefiting all South African refugees and political exiles.

Journalist Rauf Mirkadirov who was convicted of espionage charges, was also released, although not officially amnestied.

He remained in exile until January 1, 1849 when then President Mosquera gave amnesty to all those who committed political crimes.

Charles was forgiven his crimes against France and restored to all his rights and properties 300 of his followers received a royal pardon.

Mulele was also lured back to the Congo from exile by the promise of an amnesty but was tortured and murdered.

The commission has no power to grant amnesty but can determine the political crimes in respect of which an amnesty law can be adopted.

With a view to fostering national reconciliation, the President of the Republic has granted an amnesty in respect of political offences committed during the period of the coup d apos état.

At the amnesty of 1840 he returned to France, where he died on 27 October 1846 at Freigné in Maine et Loire.

In May 2004, a draft law on amnesties presented to Parliament was withdrawn because it would have assigned the power to grant amnesties to the President and not to Parliament.

After the civil war ended following the Taif Accord, Hobeika benefited from an amnesty for crimes committed during the Lebanon civil war in 1991.

It also approves general amnesties, accepts or rejects resignations by members of the Assembly and may make votes of no confidence in the Ministry or a minister.

The nature of the proceedings would not be judicial, thus leaving the question of prosecutions open, subject to amnesty.

South Africa made the best of amnesty by not providing it collectively, but only individually to those on both sides of the struggle who acknowledged and disclosed their crimes.

But, although Zakaev was one of the most moderate members of the Chechen resistance, an amnesty for him needed the Kremlin s approval, and he does not seem to have received it, which is probably why he refused Kadyrov s offer.

Pardoned along with Posada Carriles were his three accomplices detained in Panama, Gaspar Eugenio Jiménez Escobedo, Guillermo Novo Sampoll and Pedro Remón Rodríguez.

So it was a mercy that our country chose to go the way of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission granting amnesty in exchange for the truth.

Dictators who demand amnesty as a condition for leaving power are somewhat like airplane highjackers who insist on freedom for themselves and imprisoned comrades as the price for releasing hostages.

In order to release the innocent and slandered, what we need isn't amnesty, but an additional investigation of their cases to ensure that these people were indeed innocently slandered.

Although Valckenier declared an amnesty on 11 October, gangs of irregulars continued to hunt and kill Chinese until 22 October, when the governor general called more forcefully for a cessation of hostilities.

1. The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between UNHCR and the Government of South Africa on 4 September 1991 led to a declaration by the Government of a general amnesty benefiting all South African refugees and political exiles.

This law expressly excluded from amnesty offences involving inhuman or degrading treatment or the disappearance of persons under the responsibility of police officers or members of the armed forces.

Some long time leaders have been coaxed from office through blandishments, high profile international positions, or even amnesties and comfortable exiles in safe locations.

The State party explains that the law quot did establish an amnesty of a special kind and subject to certain conditions for military and police personnel alleged to have been engaged in violations of human rights during the period of the previous ... regime ....

Many of these people have really settled here and the government has allowed this status to continue, Vaughan says. almost like a backdoor legalization or amnesty program because very few people who've ever gotten temporary protected status have ever had to return home.

In that context, my Government has formulated a deliberate policy in which it offers amnesty from prosecution to anyone who surrenders an illegal firearm or provides information leading to the recovery of such a firearm to the police.

While granting amnesty to those who, at home or abroad, have derogated from the fundamental rights of the people of Burundi as a whole and of individual members of that people in particular, we want to accept our history without thereby becoming its prisoners.

He noted that amnesties for perpetrators of wrongful acts had been proposed in South Africa in the framework of a truth and reconciliation commission because victims had wanted the truth more than criminal prosecutions.

Furthermore, if established by a Security Council resolution, the international commission would be a United Nations subsidiary body and as such would not be affected by a national legislation measure, including amnesty.