Panamanian President Pardons Anti-Castro Cubans
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Panama&#39;s outgoing president has pardoned four Cuban emigres convicted for their role in an assassination attempt on Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Cuba&#39;s communist government freed dissident writer Raul Rivero from prison Tuesday, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island&#39;s human-rights record.
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A leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner jailed for fraud is handed a presidential pardon.
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Cuba's communist government freed writer Raul Rivero and another dissident from prison Tuesday, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island's human rights record.
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Panama's new President Martin  Torrijos vowed on Wednesday to mend diplomatic ties with Cuba,  ruptured last week when his predecessor pardoned four men  jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Cuba freed six jailed dissidents on  health grounds on Monday and was preparing to release a dozen  more in an apparent bid to clean up its human rights image.
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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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Cuba has freed one of the country&#39;s best-known dissidents, the acclaimed poet and journalist Raul Rivero. The 59-year-old was among 75 people arrested in a huge government crackdown last year and given long prison terms.
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President Bush granted pardons yesterday to carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and a violator of election laws, but not to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his vice president's former top aide, who was convicted in the case of the leaked identity of a CIA operative.
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Cuba severed diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday, retaliating within hours for the president&#39;s pardoning four Cuban Ã©migrÃ©s accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Former Panamanian dictator to be extradited to France after completing a prison sentence in Miami.
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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba severed diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday in anger at its outgoing leader  pardoning four Cuban exiles imprisoned for plotting to kill  President Fidel Castro in 2000.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai pardons a 14-year-old boy caught  on his way to kill a provincial governor.
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President Hugo Chavez granted amnesty Monday to those accused of involvement in a failed 2002 coup that briefly drove him from power.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pardoned her ousted predecessor Thursday, a move that drew praise as an olive branch toward political reconciliation and scorn as an opportunistic maneuver that endorses corruption.
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Cuba releases four political prisoners in what diplomats call a positive move by acting leader, Raul Castro.
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Cuba released three imprisoned  dissidents on health grounds on Monday in what opposition  activists called a bid to end a diplomatic standoff with the  European Union.