Afghanistan weighs amnesty in war crimes
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The upper house of parliament passed a resolution Tuesday that calls for an amnesty for Afghans &#151; including some lawmakers and members of the government &#151; who are suspected of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, an official said. President Hamid Karzai will now decide whether it should become law, said Kadamali Nekpai, chief of the upper house's press department.
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About 200 people gathered to remember one of the worst massacres of Afghanistan's 1992-1996 civil war, calling for justice days after parliament voted for an amnesty for war crimes.
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Amnesty&#39;s report -- &quot;Human dignity denied: Torture and accountability in the &#39;war on terror&quot;&#39; -- accused Washington of stepping onto a &quot;well-trodden path of violating basic rights in the name of national security or &#39;military necessity&#39;.
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Amnesty International calls for a body to prosecute human rights violations by Israelis and Palestinians.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul to intervene in the case,  lawyers for two of them said on Wednesday.
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A leading rights group is urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sideline warlords implicated in rights abuses and strengthen the rule of law when he announces a new cabinet.
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A nationwide arms amnesty will be held in Iraq, to be announced next week, according to reports. National security adviser Kassin Daoud told Reuters that the move is aimed at stemming the flow of arms to the
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Iraq&#039;s prime minister said Wednesday that several insurgent groups have shown a willingness for reconciliation, but that any amnesty for insurgents would exclude militants who killed American forces or Iraqis.
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Afghanistan's parliament has cleared the way for a law giving amnesty to groups involved in war crimes during the country's nearly three decades of bloody conflict, prompting angry reaction Sunday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is due attend a meeting in Rome aimed at strengthening the rule of law in his country.
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The U.S. military will begin filing war crimes charges against detainees at Guantanamo Bay this week under new rules for trials that allow coerced or hearsay evidence, the lead prosecutor for the tribunals said Tuesday.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - The U.S. military is reconvening a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal in a third attempt to try a young Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, March 10 -- Afghan lawmakers on Saturday overwhelmingly passed a bill granting limited amnesty to suspected war criminals after President Hamid Karzai inserted measures that he said would allow victims from three decades of conflict to seek justice.
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About 30,000 Afghans rallied at what was once a Taliban execution center in Kabul on Friday to press President Hamid Karzai to approve a blanket amnesty for 25 years of war crimes.
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Probe into deaths of two detainees in Afghanistan leads investigators to recommend bringing abuse-related charges against soldiers.
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The Bush Administration has said that it is ready to offer amnesty to &quot;non-criminal&quot; remnants of the Taliban holed up in different pockets across Afghanistan.
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Amnesty International demanded the US on Wednesday to set up an independent probe of prisonersâ abuses in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and at Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq.