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amnesty

An amnesty is a forgiveness of a government to a large group of people for their offense.

amnesty

a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment the formal act of liberating someone grant a pardon to (a group of people) (= pardon) a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

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No amnesty applies to me?
Margaret, I'm trying to get an amnesty For all the highlands. To do so, I must make a vow towards London.
He's set his mind on an amnesty for the highlands. He wants the war forgotten.
Granting an amnesty to all persons who committed Any treasonable offenses against him.
Such pardon and amnesty to be granted To all the highland clans. Save only the cursed and traitorous clan macgregor.
We tried to have peace, my lord. And when they denied us amnesty, We still tried to keep their laws.
Not if I could have you included In the general amnesty.
Grant amnesty to my clan. As for me, you may do what you will.
I am declaring a general amnesty.
As part of this amnesty it will not be necessary for officers to do manual labour.
Well, amnesty.
Perhaps we can drink to the amnesty.
Goes through the country to see how the amnesty holds.
Amnesty?
Then I suppose you're protesting against this amnesty offer by the governor, aren't you?
What amnesty offer?
The governor has promised amnesty- a clean pardon- to any member of the James gang that will kill Jesse.
And to this end, that you join with me in repeating the oath of allegiance from President Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation.
Because our father had been in Congress had come back to Virginia when the war started because he still owned a plantation they said that according to the terms written in Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation he wasn't entitled to a pardon like everyone else.
Amnesty has been declared for all prisoners.
Your Majesty, the first issue up for debate at yesterday's Ministerial Meeting was the amnesty in Hungary that Your Majesty had envisioned.
The Secretary of State as well as all other Ministers opine that this amnesty would pose new and incalculable danger for Austria.
I am going to pass the amnesty even against my Ministers' wishes.
You lifted the state of siege in Hungary and passed amnesty?
The Emperor passed the amnesty. You should thank him.
I'm not talking about the amnesty, Your Majesty.
An amnesty won't bring the executed back to life and restore happiness in the hearts of their families.
I have no intention to shake hands with a rebel even though he's exempt from punishment due to the amnesty.
Someone from the embassy - Amnesty or someone.
As part of this amnesty it will not be necessary for officers to do manual labor.
Have they given him amnesty?
Soon there will be an amnesty, I'm sure.
Everyone tells me there will be an amnesty.
What about amnesty?
Bebo is a partisan, and amnesty was not made for them.
If I had delivered before the amnesty, now would be out.
Do not get upset if the sentence is harsh, because there will be another amnesty, next year, after the elections.
Better than an amnesty.
It's exactly what it says, an amnesty.
My amnesty is near.
Under the general amnesty, you're free to leave whenever you want.

News and current affairs

In the wake of the Stanculescu conviction, the Interior Minister reiterated his proposal for a general amnesty for all soldiers involved in the violence of 1989.
Its own prestige is high: groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are respected voices, to whom many governments feel obliged to pay attention.
The latter status may or may not include a path to residency and citizenship; fudging the issue may be a negotiating tactic to avoid debate over whether this is a form of disguised amnesty (which, fortunately, to a certain extent, it is).
Amnesty for Saddam?
Is such an amnesty a good idea?
Without amnesty from a body such as the UN Security Council, the theoretical possibility that he could be prosecuted would be preserved.
Amnesty for Saddam Hussein is simply intolerable.
Nowadays, it is associations such as Amnesty International and Hands Off Cain that push states to abolish capital punishment.
It would indicate that there can be no true peace in Guatemala as long as the powerful are accommodated with grants of amnesty and forgetting is prized over truth and justice.
The rise of these types of prosecutions has in turn motivated countries, including Argentina and Chile, to repeal their amnesty laws so that suspected war criminals can be prosecuted at home.
This confidence lay in two legal gifts he had bestowed upon himself - an amnesty for his crimes and immunity as a senator-for-life.
The Chilean courts allowed these cases to proceed by stripping Pinochet of his parliamentary immunity and endorsing a legal theory to bypass the amnesty.
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.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Peer Review have all documented, with more or less evidence and precision, a proliferation of abuses and an absence of accountability for them.
Amnesty International has documented the widespread practice of pushing back migrants and refugees attempting to cross into Greece and Bulgaria - a practice that contravenes international law.
But with the stick should come a carrot: with good intelligence, some Iraqi generals and colonels should be approached with offers of amnesty and support should they decide to try to topple Saddam.
Amnesty laws in Argentina at the time shielded him from prosecution.
Abbas has succeeded in convincing Israel to grant amnesty to many Fatah fugitives in the West Bank who will join his security apparatuses.
Kadyrov promised Zakaev amnesty and various positions ranging from director of the local theater to Minister of Culture.
There, even many of the most dedicated opponents of apartheid favored the provision of the 1993 Temporary Constitution that required an amnesty.
Without amnesty, it was widely accepted, whites would fight to keep power, leading to all out war.
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.
Even so, amnesty allowed many people with blood on their hands to escape punishment in the interest of avoiding greater bloodshed.
It is difficult to quarrel with those who made the decision in South Africa to accept an amnesty.
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.

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