• An amnesty law is any legislative, constitutional or executive arrangement that retroactively exempts a select group of people, usually military leaders...
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  • Amnesty (from Ancient Greek ἀμνηστία (amnēstía) 'forgetfulness, passing over') is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class...
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  • Amnesty Law is a law passed by the Parliament of Spain and given royal assent on October 15, 1977, two years after Francisco Franco's death. The Law freed...
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  • Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters...
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    provided amnesty to two groups of applicants. Aliens who had been unlawfully residing in the United States since before January 1, 1982 (LAWs) were legalized...
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  • another all-night session on 14 June 1995, Congress enacted law No. 26479, the "Amnesty Law", ordering the release of all police officers, soldiers, and...
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  • Tax amnesty allows taxpayers to voluntarily disclose and pay tax owing in exchange for avoiding tax evasion penalties. It is a limited-time opportunity...
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    amnesty was granted to the suspects in this stage of the trial (the amnesty law was passed two months before the verdict in the trial). The amnesty law...
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    The 2023–2024 Spanish protests against Catalan amnesty were a series of protests which began in October 2023, resulting from the announced negotiations...
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  • when the deed was committed. Conversely, a form of ex post facto law called an amnesty law may decriminalize certain acts. Alternatively, rather than redefining...
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    incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in exchange of a controversial amnesty law for Catalan politicians convicted or investigated for events related...
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    Parliament of Lebanon passed an amnesty law that pardoned all political crimes that had been perpetrated prior to the law's time of enactment. In May 1991...
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  • as the impunity laws. Law 22,924, the National Pacification Law, enacted on September 22, 1983, became known as the Self-Amnesty Law because through it...
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    and wishes of the regime. In 1979 the Brazilian government passed an amnesty law that allowed all exiled activists to return to Brazil but also protected...
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    Domestically, Guaidó's actions included a proposed Plan País (Country Plan), an amnesty law for military personnel and authorities who turn against the Maduro government...
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    1993 amnesty law. In 2016, however, the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador ruled in case Incostitucionalidad 44-2013/145-2013 that the law was unconstitutional...
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    Following weeks of political tensions, which saw Sánchez accepting an amnesty law for Catalan separatist politicians convicted or investigated for events...
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    Turing law" is an informal term for the law in the United Kingdom, contained in the Policing and Crime Act 2017, which serves as an amnesty law to pardon...
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  • barışı or imar affı), is any set of Turkish law to register and legalize nominally illegal construction. Amnesty is (retroactively) granted to buildings without...
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    Figueiredo became president in March 1979; in the same year he passed the Amnesty Law for political crimes committed for and against the regime. While combating...
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  • Republic of Poland. The law on amnesty was passed by the Polish Sejm on 22 February 1947. The actual purpose of the amnesty was the liquidation of coordinated...
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  • in the Soviet Union Amnesty of 1947, a law for soldiers and activists of the Polish anti-communist underground Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, a...
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    an amnesty law would also authorize the president to designate individuals who have committed certain categories of crimes to be offered amnesty, if...
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  • clearest and most explicit expression of the Pact is the Spanish 1977 Amnesty Law. The Pact was challenged by the socialist government elected in 2004...
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    The Amnesty of 1953 was the largest amnesty in the history of the Soviet Union (and in the history of Russia) in terms of the number of the released persons...
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  • of "what has always been done and accepted by law". Customary law (also, consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where: a certain legal practice is observed...
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    Proclamation 4483 (category Amnesty laws)
    President Gerald Ford signed a proclamation in 1974 that granted conditional amnesty to draft evaders, provided they work in a public service job for up to...
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    The Togliatti amnesty (Italian: Amnistia Togliatti) was an amnesty declared in Italy on 22 June 1946. Named after the then-Italian Minister of Justice...
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    The 2019 Venezuelan Amnesty Law (Spanish: Ley de Amnistía a nombre de la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela) is a law promulgated by the National Assembly...
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  • Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...
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