amnesty
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He applied for amnesty then, and received a temporary green card, his lawyer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He dismisses the Taliban government's amnesty, announced days after their return to power which declared that former government officials, security personnel and civil servants would not face retaliation and were encouraged to return to work.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Rodriguez also pushed through a historic amnesty law in February.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Earlier this year, the Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said it would offer amnesty and legalize an estimated half a million immigrants who had arrived illegally in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
He wore civilian clothes, replaced the soldiers with unarmed policemen, enforced the amnesty laws, and helped a few families of Liberals who had been killed in the war.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The junta frequently grants prison amnesties on public holidays, and Monday's raft of notices also announced the release of more than 2,800 other prisoners and 10 jailed foreign nationals -- without detailing their offences.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Argentina has announced dozens of tax amnesties over the years, only for the rules to be reversed by subsequent governments, which sometimes chase down Argentines for the assets and cash they just declared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Mass amnesties on the holiday are not unusual in Myanmar.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Uruguay returned to democracy in 1985, but an immunity law granting amnesties to members of the armed forces accused of human rights violations was in force until 2011.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
The Emperor has the right of pardoning, even in correctional cases, and of granting amnesties.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
Running as an outsider, Chavez, amnestied from prison only four years earlier, won the presidency, though with a total turnout of just 36%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
When she and Tolokonnikova are amnestied by Putin, Alyokhina thinks, “Everyone needed this amnesty but me.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017
He questioned why imprisoned rebels who were amnestied six months ago remain in jail and complained about the state of the Mariana Paez demobilization camp where the ceremony was taking place.
From Time ● Jun. 27, 2017
Only lesser crimes such as rebellion will be amnestied.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2015
"His Excellency here has been so very recently amnestied by the Prince, that he imagines he is still at war with us."
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
Kobe Bryant will most likely return when he is healthy, unless one believes that this Lakers organization would risk the backlash involved in amnestying him, but nobody knows when that will be.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013
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