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Vietnam said it will free more than 18,200 prisoners to mark its independence day celebrations, but political activists will be excluded from the country's second biggest-ever amnesty.

• 28 августа 2015, 16:56

Campaigners from Amnesty International honoured two members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot who served 22 months in prison.

• 15 ноября 2014, 12:15

I commission the Government to administer a tax amnesty to provide relief of all the penalties accrued as of October 1, 2014 to small and middle-sized businesses, the President said.

• 06 августа 2014, 20:11

Protesters arrested during months of anti-government unrest in Ukraine were granted amnesty on Monday after the opposition agreed to end their occupation of Kiev city hall and other public buildings.

• 17 февраля 2014, 13:30

Ukraine's opposition defiantly refused to back an amnesty bill that would free activists and ease the country's worst crisis since independence.

• 30 января 2014, 13:20

Donors gathered in Kuwait Wednesday in a major fundraising drive for 13 million Syrians affected by war following a record UN appeal for $6.5 billion.

• 15 января 2014, 18:51

Nepal's top court has rejected a demand by ultra-leftists that an amnesty be granted to people who committed serious rights abuses during the country's civil war, an official said Saturday.

• 05 января 2014, 14:08

The last of the 26 foreign Greenpeace activists who were detained after an Arctic protest flew out of Russia on Sunday, the group announced, finally ending a saga that had caused global concern.

• 30 декабря 2013, 11:23

Pussy Riot bandmember Maria Alyokhina, who was freed from prison Monday under a Kremlin-backed amnesty, slammed the measure as a mere publicity stunt and said that she would have preferred to remain in prison.

• 23 декабря 2013, 17:02

One of the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, was freed from prison on Monday after receiving amnesty.

• 23 декабря 2013, 13:03

The Central African Republic's mostly Muslim ex-rebels killed nearly 1,000 people in the capital Bangui two weeks ago in a rampage avenging deadly Christian militia attacks, Amnesty International said in a report Thursday.

• 19 декабря 2013, 14:08

Senior US lawmakers said Monday they have reached a compromise deal that eases restrictions on sending Guantanamo detainees home or to third countries but bars their transfer to the United States.

• 10 декабря 2013, 12:21

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the "slavery-like" conditions faced by thousands of Indonesian women who work in Hong Kong as domestic staff, accusing authorities of "inexcusable" inaction.

• 21 ноября 2013, 12:55

Amnesty International called Wednesday on the Democratic Republic of Congo to put an end to the fighting in the east of the country where several local and foreign armed groups are committing abuses.

• 11 октября 2012, 12:05

Around 60 Mexicans marched on Canada's parliament on Tuesday to request amnesty for thousands of failed asylum seekers whose lives they say would be at risk if they are deported to Mexico.

• 03 октября 2012, 13:28

For the past 2.5 years I have changed neither any of my views, nor my attitudes: Yevgeniy Zhovtis.

• 17 февраля 2012, 13:06

New Minister of Justice Berik Imashev believes that Kazakhstan needs to stop its amnesty practices.

• 16 февраля 2012, 18:37