amnesty

Her Mexican mother was naturalized thanks to the 1986 amnesty, but her first husband struggled for years to attain legal status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

He is talking about limiting the validity of possession permits, and a possible amnesty to encourage those with unlicensed guns to hand them in.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Turkish lawmakers on Monday voted through a bill offering limited amnesty for Kurdish PKK militants, a key step in the peace process that seeks to end decades of deadly violence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The legislation, part of efforts to end decades of deadly fighting, would allow some PKK members to return to civilian life under certain conditions but falls short of offering a general amnesty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

But that day, I did not have much opportunity to sight-see for I met immediately with the men protesting the government offer of amnesty.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The move has been accompanied by some rollbacks of post-coup curbs and prisoner amnesties, which analysts have likewise dismissed as lip-service measures to launder the leadership's reputation.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Argentina has announced dozens of tax amnesties over the years, only for the rules to be reversed by subsequent governments, which sometimes chase down Argentines for the assets and cash they just declared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Additionally, government amnesties for shoddy construction allowed transgressors to pay fines rather than tear down or fix dangerous buildings.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Uruguay returned to democracy in 1985, but an immunity law granting amnesties to members of the armed forces accused of human rights violations was in force until 2011.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024

Then he had vague news of different amnesties.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

Running as an outsider, Chavez, amnestied from prison only four years earlier, won the presidency, though with a total turnout of just 36%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

When she and Tolokonnikova are amnestied by Putin, Alyokhina thinks, “Everyone needed this amnesty but me.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017

He questioned why imprisoned rebels who were amnestied six months ago remain in jail and complained about the state of the Mariana Paez demobilization camp where the ceremony was taking place.

From Time ● Jun. 27, 2017

Only lesser crimes such as rebellion will be amnestied.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2015

An amnestied king returned powerless to his palace.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde

Kobe Bryant will most likely return when he is healthy, unless one believes that this Lakers organization would risk the backlash involved in amnestying him, but nobody knows when that will be.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013