Nepal pardon for jailed women
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King Gyanendra of Nepal grants an amnesty to 12 women prisoners jailed for having abortions.
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Nepalis woke on Wednesday to the promise of peace and an end to a decade of civil war, kidnappings, murders and fear, seven months after mass street protests overturned royal rule.
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DAMASCUS - Syria freed 112 political prisoners under a presidential pardon on Tuesday, the official news agency reported. The agency did not give details about the prisoners that it said were released âin the framework of a presidential pardon.
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Former Philippines leader Joseph Estrada, who was granted a presidential pardon after being jailed for life for massive corruption, on Friday prepared to walk free, ending a six-year national saga.
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Argentina's Supreme Court revokes a pardon granted to a former general accused of human rights abuses.
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BEIJING -- The wife of a Boston-area democracy activist jailed in China said yesterday she plans to seek medical parole for her husband after seeing him for the first time since he was detained in 2002.
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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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Togo's government frees some 500 prisoners, after they were pardoned by President Eyadema.
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Iran has pardoned and released a French tourist convicted of taking photos of ships in the Persian Gulf, the French Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
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A leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner jailed for fraud is handed a presidential pardon.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal  - Nepali human rights groups  plan the first open show of defiance against the king's seizure  of power for Thursday, saying they can stay silent no longer  and daring him to "fill the jails."
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District inmates held in federal prisons are now eligible to have a year shaved off their sentences for completing an intensive drug-treatment program.
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Vietnam has released nearly 9,000  prisoners, including 10 inmates whose cases it says had drawn  international attention, as part of traditional pardons granted  ahead of independence celebrations on September 2.
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Jordan's King Abdullah II on Saturday pardoned two Islamist lawmakers who had been convicted of stirring sectarian strife for their praise of the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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21 September 2004 -- A Russian Army colonel convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young Chechen woman withdrew his request for a pardon today after public demonstrations of outrage in Chechnya.
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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, officials said on Monday.
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A former Russian colonel who strangled a Chechen teenager is pardoned by a regional amnesty commission.