(v.) Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
(v.) An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
(v. t.) To grant amnesty to.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is Cruz, a longtime critic of so-called “amnesty” policies, who has spent the greater part of the debate’s aftermath seeking to clarify his position.
(2) Amnesty International supports the development of a treaty on business and human rights because we believe states must fulfil their duty to protect people against all human rights abuses, including those caused by corporate abuse and negligence.
(3) "If at any time we had been presented with a scheme that in any way amounted to immunity, exemption or amnesty we would have stopped that scheme - consistent with our opposition to the previous Government's Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill in 2005."
(4) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(5) Would Amnesty prefer that no further training was given?
(6) We should also have met people who know about the country – Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and in particular the UN special rapporteur, who we could have confronted with our new knowledge,” says Olsen.
(7) The report reveals a pattern of frequent Israeli attacks using large aerial bombs to level civilian homes, sometimes killing entire families,” Amnesty said.
(8) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
(9) According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace.
(10) After his last marathon on Sunday, he will have run more than 2,000 miles, including training, and raised more than £4,000 for Amnesty International and WfWI.
(11) Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA’s security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: “What we don’t want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary.” Some of the hawkish responses to events in Paris “raise a question of whether there’s an exploiting of public fear and anger and anxiety to push legislation through”, she added.
(12) After their arrests, the brothers were kept for several months in solitary confinement and later sentenced to prison after what Amnesty International described as a one-day "unfair trial".
(13) As a result, the only contact some asylum seekers within the centre have with Amnesty International is through intermittent, non-secure internet access and one to two short phone calls outside the centre each week.
(14) He also said tax evaders using Liechtenstein had been offered "amnesty-lite" deals.
(15) Najia Bounaim, deputy campaigns director at Amnesty International’s Tunis office, said the arrest was “the latest chilling example of the Egyptian authorities’ systematic persecution of independent human rights defenders.” “We believe she has been arrested for her legitimate human rights work and must be released immediately and unconditionally,” she said.
(16) I work with a pacifist organisation; I don’t want to feel like I have to prove to everyone that I am worthy of being a member of this society when I have contributed so much.” Members of Amnesty International attended the peaceful demonstration, which drew little attention from the police.
(17) Kieron Bryan, a freelance journalist and one of six Britons among the 30 Greenpeace detainees, said that with all the uncertainty about whether or not they would be included in the amnesty, the past week had been hard to cope with: "We've all been feeling the emotional strain this week," he said from St Petersburg.
(18) Last December, Northern Ireland's chief law officer, Attorney General John Larkin QC, said there should be no more police investigations, inquiries or even inquests into killings related to the conflict prior to the 1998 peace deal – an effective amnesty for all Troubles crimes.
(19) Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said: “Chelsea Manning exposed serious abuses, and as a result her own human rights have been violated by the US government for years.
(20) However in a statement released in response to the Amnesty International report, corrective services minister Joe Francis said the government makes “no apology for detaining young people who commit violent crimes,” and suggested all Aboriginal young people who are currently in detention are either serving a sentence or are on remand for “extremely serious crimes,” including murder.
Clemency
Definition:
(n.) Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
(n.) Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in a last-ditch effort, his lawyers lodged an appeal for clemency on Monday morning.
(2) In a letter to the Australian newspaper , Stephens said the decision of the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, to refuse the pair clemency made him wonder what hope there was for freedom or redemption for other drug offenders, like himself.
(3) In a tweet soon after Tuesday’s announcement, Assange thanked “everyone who campaigned for Chelsea Manning’s clemency.
(4) The Guardian asked the White House for an update on both the online petition and on Manning’s clemency appeal, but received no reply.
(5) A senior US attorney who was involved in the prosecution of Native American activist Leonard Peltier has requested that Barack Obama grant clemency, with a rare plea that has energized the campaign to free the high-profile indigenous prisoner.
(6) Nor is there clemency for the "Bolotnaya 27", who took part in mass anti-Putin street protests in May 2012.
(7) His book details his efforts, for example, to win some clemency for a young man named Joe Sullivan , convicted in 1989, aged 13, of burglary and rape on testimony given by two older “accomplices”, one with a long criminal record of sexual violence.
(8) On Tuesday a federal judge in Austin refused Tamayo's request for a restraining order to stop governor Rick Perry and the Texas board of pardons and paroles from considering Tamayo's clemency petition until the procedure is "adequate and fair".
(9) The document will be given to all 24 England representative teams, with Ray Clemence having delivered a presentation to the Under-17s on Tuesday.
(10) The prisoner's appeal for clemency has been backed by many prominent individuals and groups in Georgia, including one of its most famous resident, former president Jimmy Carter.
(11) The parole board declined to spare Gissendaner’s life after a clemency hearing in February.
(12) The five political prisoners – convicted over a 2003 raid on an Indonesian military weapons arsenal – were granted clemency by Widodo in a ceremony at Abepura prison, in the provincial capital Jayapura.
(13) However, the focus on Snowden's singular case seriously deflects from the fact that the Obama administration has been a nightmare for whistleblowers and truth tellers, and that several others currently in prison or in exile deserve the same clemency or clear assurances they will not be prosecuted.
(14) Pro bono legal project Clemency Project 2014 was involved with clemency applications for 25 of the people granted commutations.
(15) Photograph: Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Masyarakat Jefferson has previously refused to apply for clemency, arguing that it would equate to an admission of guilt to a crime he did not commit.
(16) Ray Bennett, now 59 and decades sober, will die in prison as sentenced 24 years ago – unless, as he hopes, he receives the same clemency that Barack Obama issued last week for 46 prisoners with similar cases.
(17) Peltier’s request for clemency is not a pardon appeal, but simply asks that Obama reduce the sentence.
(18) Gove said her power of “executive clemency” should be used to release 500 prisoners serving imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences who have already served more than the usual maximum sentences for their offences.
(19) Then, last July, Brown walked free after being granted clemency by Barack Obama.
(20) But Manning’s lawyers see the negative response of both the DoJ and the army as missing the point – they say their clemency petition is with Obama directly.