The president of the republic, Sanford B. Dole, pardoned the royalists after serving part of their prison sentence.

Albania's president pardoned him in 2002 and the country's parliament approved a resolution supporting his return.

In March 2008 the president of Chad pardoned the convicted aid-workers, and they were released from the prisons in France.

In March 2008 the president of Chad pardoned the convicted aid-workers.

The young president is gradually pardoning prisoners detained under his father's leadership, with some Islamist activists released having spent more than 20 years behind bars.

With the amnesty, an annual event, the president pardons a range of crimes from parking violations to low-level corruption.

On 26 June 2012, it was reported that Pakistan's president had pardoned him on the basis of his petition filed on 28 May 2012.

In Panama, where he was implicated in a plot to kill Mr. Castro during a visit there, the departing president pardoned him in 2004.

After widespread public criticism of this harsh punishment, the president pardoned the men.

Today, they suddenly re-emerged when the country's president pardoned a young woman imprisoned for having failed to tell the police what she knew about the killer's intentions.