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He also pledged to backtrack on some of the new laws that demonstrators are angry about, and awarded amnesty to a number of protesters arrested for minor offences.

In January 1995, Mandela heavily chastised him for awarding amnesty to 3,500 police just before the election, and later criticised him for defending former Minister of Defence Magnus Malan when the latter was charged with murder.

Sunstein defended and may have advised Obama on his breach of his 2008 promise (as senator) to filibuster any new law awarding amnesty to the telecoms that illegally spied on Americans.

Also, in the case of the South African truth commission, the Amnesty Committee had the competence to award amnesties to applicants, under certain conditions.

"It suggests some kind of criminality, because why wouldn't he testify for his friend?" Mr. Taubman's lawyers, Scott W. Muller and Robert B. Fiske Jr., of Davis Polk & Wardell, have made it clear in pretrial filings that they expect to challenge a fundamental underpinning of the government's case -- the agreement that awarded Christie's conditional amnesty.

But critics of Mr. Cruz argue that Cubans are awarded what some today would call amnesty.

He also noted that Mr. Gusinsky would be eligible for release under a recent amnesty that applies to people who have been awarded special government honors.

The band and manager Paul McGuinness were awarded Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award for their work in promoting human rights.

Last year he won Amnesty's award for new media work for exposing extrajudicial killings in Kenya.

Ian Cobain's ground-breaking reports on M15's involvement in the torture of British citizens abroad won the national newspapers category in Amnesty's media awards on 2 June 2009.

The commissioners, appointed by Nelson Mandela and headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, were empowered to award reparations to victims and amnesty to political criminals who satisfied the commission they were telling the whole truth.