Pardon for 500 Togolese prisoners
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Togo's government frees some 500 prisoners, after they were pardoned by President Eyadema.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Two prominent pro-democracy leaders were among hundreds of prisoners released from a Myanmar prison on Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country's ruling military junta.
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The Myanmar government released about 500 prisoners from the notorious Insein Prison Friday, witnesses said. There was no immediate word, however, on whether political detainees were among them.
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King Mohammed VI pardoned nearly 9,000 prisoners to celebrate the birth of his baby girl, the Justice Ministry said.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of a gang-rape, whose sentencing to 200 lashes caused an international outcry, a Saudi newspaper said on Monday.
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Burma's ruling junta frees about 500 more prisoners, and says it will release veteran dissident Win Tin.
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Gabriel Prosser, who was hanged for leading a failed slave revolt in 1800, has won a symbolic gubernatorial pardon.
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Bahrain&#39;s king pardoned a human rights activist who convicted of inciting hatred of the government and sentenced to one year in prison Sunday in a case linked to criticism of the prime minister.
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Dozens of oppositions members sentenced to heavy jail terms in a judgement that has provoked a wave of international criticism have filed requests for pardon, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Myanmar&#39;s ruling military junta announced Saturday that more than 5,000 prisoners have had their sentences suspended and will be freed from various prisons around the
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BANGKOK: Myanmarâs military rulers freed about 500 prisoners from the notorious Insein Prison on Friday, witnesses said, but there was no immediate word on whether political detainees were among them.
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Bahrain&#39;s King Hamad has pardoned an activist sentenced to one year in jail for inciting hatred against the government, the BBC reported Sunday.
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Togo's parliament passes measures which would allow the son of the late president to succeed him.
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Ethiopia has granted its first-ever amnesty to 263 prisoners, commuting the death penalty for 11 of them, state media reported Tuesday.
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Saudi Arabiaâs King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes, a Saudi newspaper reported.
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LOME, Togo -- Faure Gnassingbe was formally sworn in as president of Togo yesterday after his father's sudden death, despite strong condemnation from former colonial power France and African leaders who branded the succession unconstitutional.
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SANTIAGO -- Chilean President Ricardo Lagos yesterday announced compensation for thousands of victims of illegal imprisonment and torture during the dictatorship of Gen.