Sentence examples for sweeping amnesty from inspiring English sources

They pushed a sweeping amnesty bill through the lower house of parliament.

In El Salvador, a sweeping amnesty law rendered the 1993 findings of a United Nations truth commission legally irrelevant.

The government of Argentina, which has imposed a sweeping amnesty protecting the junta's soldiers from prosecution, argued against the extradition of Mr. Cavallo.

TBILISI, Georgia Georgiaia on Sunday released 190 inmates identified by lawmakers as political prisoners, the first group to be freed under a sweeping amnesty law passed last year by a new Parliament.

Five thousand cheering supporters turned out at a Gdansk church today to greet some of the Solidarity activists who were freed from prison this weekend under a sweeping amnesty.

The interview came barely 24 hours after one of the most astonishing events in the turbulent history of Iraq, the emptying of the country's prisons under a sweeping amnesty declared by President Hussein.

Many Latin American governments have granted their cold warriors sweeping amnesties, seeking to induce a kind of national amnesia.

Such obvious criminalization of freedom of assembly and expression might seem to contradict President Vladimir Putin's recent, sweeping prisoner amnesty and pardon of high profile Prisoner of Conscience Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which led some to wonder whether he had begun to embrace increased respect for free expression and other human rights in the lead-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Thanks to a sweeping traffic ticket amnesty that took effect Oct. 1, Jefferson now is on a payment plan of $1 per month — an amount that will increase once he lands a job.

In exchange, the agency granted tax-exempt status to the church and provided it with a sweeping tax amnesty.

Shortly after Judge Garzón issued his edict, Spain's chief prosecutor, Javier Zaragoza, challenged it, partly by claiming that it violated Spain's sweeping 1977 amnesty law.