partial amnesty

One of his first acts was to declare a partial amnesty.

Others who have been convicted will be freed from jail under a partial amnesty.

Meanwhile, a partial amnesty for people with offshore accounts has raised about £500m.

Some officials in China are believed to have argued in favor of a partial amnesty.

In December 1989 he announced the end of government control of the economy and declared a partial amnesty for political prisoners.

Five other, more minor drug traffickers have surrendered since the Government first offered its partial amnesty on Sept. 5.

The supply shortage, coupled with a partial amnesty, prompted an increasing number of chiefs to leave Philip's alliance.

Although martial law formally ended in July 1983 and a partial amnesty was enacted, several hundred political prisoners remained in jail.

He surrendered on June 28, 2004, the second suspect to surrender, after King Fahd offered a partial amnesty.

In 2004, partial amnesty was granted to draft evaders, allowing them to visit Greece for up to 30 days in a single calendar year.

Under military pressure, Congress has already adopted what amounted to two partial amnesties freeing lower-ranking officers and enlisted men from the threat of prosecution.

The partial amnesty does not spare him a trial, or detention, if convicted, but it does spare him a death sentence.

President Boris Trajkovski also said he was preparing a peace plan to present to Parliament that would offer a partial amnesty to rebel fighters.

But as Mr. de Maiziere suggested, the bulk of former secret agents on both sides are likely to come under some agreement or partial amnesty eventually.

Violence has flared up in Algeria recently in the run-up to a Sept. 16 referendum on a partial amnesty to militants not convicted of violent crimes.

Erdoğan passed a partial amnesty to reduce penalties faced by many members of the Kurdish guerrilla movement PKK who had surrendered to the government.

Example in Nicaragua They point out that a partial amnesty granted in Nicaragua does not include convicted killers or those strongly suspected of being killers.

The Nicaraguan Government also released nearly 1,000 political prisoners under a partial amnesty and let a handful of exiled priests and other Nicaraguan expatriates return home.

On December 18 Congress passed a law giving a partial amnesty to the combatants, before the final accord for a firm and lasting peace was signed on December 29.

ETA VII accepted this partial amnesty granted by the now democratic Spanish government and integrated into the political party Euskadiko Ezkerra ("Left of the Basque Country").

Mr. Borge also said in the interview that many of the nearly 1,000 Nicaraguan prisoners freed under a partial amnesty last year had become contra guerrillas, but that further releases were being considered anyway.

In what amounted to a partial amnesty, he asked for the immediate release of all minors arrested during the last week and appealed to justice authorities to prosecute only adult protesters arrested for violent crimes.

It said, for example, that the agency had no list of people owing more than $1,000, that it rarely used default procedures against scofflaws, and that it did not offer partial amnesty to increase collections.

In April 1999 the new President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, ordered a partial amnesty, a law of civil concord, and promised fundamental reforms in order to put an end to the ongoing crisis in the country.

Cites Sandinista Unity In recent days, Mr. Ortega has taken several steps aimed at bringing Nicaragua into compliance with the peace accord, such as expanding political rights, offering a partial amnesty and abolishing "people's tribunals."