In Pyongyang I requested Mr. Gomes's freedom, then had to wait 36 hours for his retrial, pardon and release.
Cuba will pardon and release 3,522 prisoners ahead of next week's visit by Pope Francis, the third time the country has granted inmates freedom before a papal visit.
"Rather than railing against their critics, the Saudi authorities should overturn the sentence against Badawi, pardon and release him and end the routine use of corporal punishment, as well as court processes that flout basic international standards".
Even President Putin has joined the ranks of the rescuers calling for her to be released – not pardoned, but released – for medical treatment.
The president's clemency record is improving with 306 commutations to date and Julie Stewart from Families Against Mandatory Minimums thinks Obama is going to continue to grant commutations over pardons, releasing people from prison rather than restoring their rights.
He was pardoned and released in 1961.
The news agency MENA says el-Sissi has ordered those pardoned be released on 23 September.
Although sentenced to death he was pardoned and released from prison at the end of 1553.
In 1990, Alfonsín's successor, President Carlos Menem, pardoned and released the imprisoned junta leaders.
She was formally pardoned and released by the former German president Richard von Weizäcker in 1989.
