amnesty

Earlier this year, the Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said it would offer amnesty and legalize an estimated half a million immigrants who had arrived illegally in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in protest and the Serbian government reacted with a gun amnesty and tougher laws.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

Rodriguez, who served as Maduro's vice president, has also pushed through an amnesty law that led to the release of hundreds of political prisoners, though some 500 remain behind bars.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

She was granted amnesty and became a U.S. citizen under the immigration reform bill signed by President Reagan in 1986.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

That month, I had another homecoming: I returned to Robben Island in order to persuade twenty-five MK political prisoners to accept the government’s offer of amnesty and leave the island.

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

In the last 20 years the Kenyan government has used amnesties as a way of controlling gun crime, promising immunity to those who surrender their weapons.

From BBC ● May 26, 2024

Mass amnesties on the holiday are not unusual in Myanmar.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 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

Dozens of those arrested in the crackdown have recently been amnestied or freed from pre-trial detention, though rights groups say thousands remain jailed.

From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2022

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017

There had been a parallel thaw within the Soviet Union, where Stalin’s successors had amnestied hundreds of thousands of political prisoners and Khrushchev had denounced Stalin’s crimes.

From Time ● Oct. 16, 2015

He was condemned for conspiracy in 1845, and was amnestied by Pius IX.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

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