"But in Israel he will be remembered as a symbol of corruption".Mr Olmert's conviction removes a potential challenger to Binyamin Netanyahu, the current prime minister, strengthening his hold on power.
The changes will allow people to make a confidential application to the Department of Justice to have the records of their convictions removed.
"The criminalisation of gay and bisexual men, who were cautioned and convicted under homophobic laws that banned sex between consenting adult men is a blemish on our history and it is right that we now address this injustice with a full and automatic pardon, and a system that allows people to have these discriminatory convictions removed from their records".
"It makes complete sense for the Colorado General Assembly to establish a mechanism by which Coloradans convicted of marijuana-related offenses prior to the legalization of marijuana can have these convictions removed from their records," lawyer Brian Vicente said.
A man convicted of possessing child abuse images has demanded links to pages about his conviction are removed, and a doctor has said that negative reviews from patients should not be searchable.
It portrays a system that features not just the sting operations but secret evidence, anonymous juries, extensive pretrial detentions and convictions significantly removed from actual plots.
But over the years, I have changed my mind because such diffidence contributes to the false image of the atheist as someone whose convictions are removed from ordinary experience.
A decade ago, All of Us or None scored its first victory when Nunn and dozens of others filled the chambers of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to demand that the box on city employment applications that asks about felony convictions be removed and the question saved for later in the hiring process.
In Washington, the conviction that removing obstreperous leaders, whether adversaries like Saddam Hussein or "friends" like Hosni Mubarak, facilitates Washington's ability to steer events remains the most persistent — and dangerous — of illusions.
Mr Basyir's conviction will remove a venomous voice from Indonesia's internal debate on the place of Islam, but in everyday terms it will not make the country any safer.
