A resolution by the executive council said blanket amnesty would recognize a growing segment of the labor force vulnerable to exploitation.
About 30 people have already come forward under the amnesty, but council officials believe a "significant" number of unregistered gardeners continue to work plots in the town.
"We had one insurgent go to the city-council president looking for amnesty," the officer recalled.
Christian was then crowned by the archbishop as hereditary monarch, breaking his promises to the council; and, despite promises of amnesty, 82 people, noblemen and clergy who had supported the Stures, were executed for heresy in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
Mr. Castro said that the amnesty was a "humanitarian gesture" and that the council had also "taken into account" the coming papal visit and requests by, among others, top Roman Catholic Church officials in Cuba and relatives of the prisoners.
Durham organized a new and more conciliatory executive council, and on June 28 , 1838 the day of Queen Victoria's coronation, he proclaimed an amnesty for all French-Canadian rebels except for 24 of their leaders.
This violence appears to have been responded to through the amnesty," says Bariara Kpalap, the chair of the region's Kegbara-Dere town council.
Amnesty members had considered the decriminalization option since the start of the council meeting in Dublin last Friday.
The movement aimed at forcing Yingluck's resignation and the handover of governing authority to an appointed "people's council" began in November as a massive protest against her government's ill-considered amnesty bill, which would have allowed Thaksin to return from exile without the threat of the two-year jail term he was handed on the corruption charges.
Others expected at the event were Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green party, and representatives of participating organisations such as the Refugee Council, Amnesty International, the Syria Solidarity Movement, Stand Up to Racism and the Stop the War Coalition.
