That's not a reason to disgrace himself.

You must beg the White Sahib's pardon.

I can see nothing...

No prisoner is eligible for pardon until he's served 90 days.

One wonders if the relatives of those murdered at My Lai are more ready to forgive Calley than the relatives of those killed at Lockerbie are to forgive Megrahi.

Mr. Gusmao has the right to appeal to a higher court or to make a request for clemency.

The cut off date for amnesty for political offences was 5 December 1993.

Today he is writing, drafting the legislation for an amnesty to forgive the security forces that wanted to kill him.

(m) Supreme Decree 015 93 JUS (8 May 1993) approves the regulations of the law on reformed criminals.

Condemned persons could appeal for clemency and such requests were sent to the Presidential Pardon Commission for review.

Most of those imprisoned have since been pardoned and released in accordance with the amnesty declared by the Head of State.

Perhaps we should defuse the threats posed by a surveillance society by having an annual day of amnesty.

2.2 In March 1985, the author submitted a petition to the Trinidadian Advisory Council for Pardons he did not receive a reply.

Similarly, amnesty would not be a bar to investigation before the international judicial commission of inquiry because of the limited material scope of the amnesty, and the legal basis of the commission.

It also stated its rejection of the blanket amnesty proposed by the Government, which, in Inyandza apos s opinion, was devised to protect the murderers of political activists opposed to the Government of South Africa.

That Commission has been given the task of formulating and recommending, after consultations with concerned sectors of the society, a viable general amnesty programme and peace process that will lead to a just, comprehensive and lasting peace.

The amnesty that followed in September 1992 had by and large no practical effect on these people since prosecutors were empowered to keep their cases in the procedure by lodging a complaint, which most of them did.

We could make a very long list, but obviously Nelson Mandela, emerging from 17 years of hard physical labor, 23 years of imprisonment, with this amazing ability to forgive, so that he could lead his nation out the evil regime of apartheid without a bloodbath.

Perhaps we should defuse the threats posed by a surveillance society by having an annual day of amnesty. On Amnesty Day not a state holiday, to be sure we would reveal to our loved ones, constituents, or employers the secrets that we think put us at risk.