Sentence examples for request amnesty from inspiring English sources

After the 1994 elections, Mandela asked Tutu to head a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that would investigate apartheid-era crimes, allowing victims to give testimony and perpetrators to request amnesty.

Perpetrators of violence (white males) could also give testimony and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution.'.

Richard B. Norland, then the American ambassador, wrote to Mr. Karimov, requesting amnesty on humanitarian grounds and emphasizing the American connection in the case.

Sara's father once requested amnesty for his illegal status but failed to get it.

He is now a diplomat; his request for amnesty was particularly controversial because of his unapologetic defense of his acts.

"We Democrats are surprised at Republicans throwing out the rule of law so casually and going along with President Bush's request for amnesty for AT&T and Verizon.

Most of these immigrants are involved in class-action lawsuits against the Immigration and Naturalization Service, contending that the agency mishandled their requests for amnesty under a 1986 immigration law.

But all Americans will feel the bite in their tax bills if Mr. Fox gets his way in his requests for amnesty for the Mexicans illegally residing in the United States.

Burleigh acknowledges that Munich's Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber praised Hitler's "statesmanly breadth of vision," but he admonishes Faulhaber's critics for failing to acknowledge that he then requested an "amnesty" for concentration camp inmates.

The State Department had earlier said that Mr. King intended to request a pardon and amnesty for the missionary, Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American from Washington State.

He will request a pardon and amnesty for Kenneth Bae, 45, on humanitarian grounds, it said.