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Amnesty and Proclamation
In 1865, President Andrew Johnson issued an " Amnesty Proclamation ," ordering the return of property by the Union Army to former Confederate landowners.
After the war, he would be denounced in some quarters as a war collaborator or even a traitor, although his indictment for treason was superseded by President Roxas ' Amnesty Proclamation.
By May 1865, Eppes had taken the Amnesty Oath, but found that his wealth excluded him from benefits of the Amnesty Proclamation.
On September 5, 2007, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Amnesty Proclamation 1377 for members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army ( NPA ); other communist rebel groups ; and their umbrella organization, the National Democratic Front.

Amnesty and December
In December 1990 Amnesty International issued a report " Allegations of Police Torture in Chicago, Illinois " calling for a full inquiry into allegations that Area 2 Chicago Police tortured criminal suspects between 1972 and 1984.
Whilst the album is yet to materialise, on 9 December 2009, the band released the song " Chase the Tear " for Human Rights Day to raise money for Amnesty International UK.
In April, 2012, two months before the verdict in the trial, Bouterse's party member Andre Misiekaba said, during a debate in the Surinamese parliament, that: " The December Murders trial is a political trial which has the purpose to eliminate Bouterse from the political arena and therefore the Amnesty Act is needed ".
The Amnesty Bill, passed on 19 December, chiefly through his unwearied advocacy, went far to smooth down the acerbity of the preceding years.
On December 10, 2005, the Peas cover of the John Lennon classic " Power to the People ", which was mostly recorded on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, was released by Amnesty International as part of the Make Some Noise campaign to celebrate human rights.
On December 16, 1976, the DOI-Codi-SP invades a house on the street Pius XI, São Paulo, killing at local orchard and Angelo Pedro Arroyo, kills John the Baptist Drumond torture prisoners and keeps up Amnesty Wladimir Pomar ( son of Pedro ), Aldo Arantes, Haroldo Lima, Elza Moneratt ( both graduates of the AP ), episode known as the Massacre and Slaughter of Lapa.
She was the seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International until her resignation on 31 December 2009.
in the UK revealed that Khan had received a payment of UK £ 533, 103 from Amnesty International following her resignation from the organisation on 31 December 2009, a fact discovered in Amnesty's records for the 2009 – 2010 financial year.
On 23 December 2010 Amnesty International announced that it was mobilizing an online petition spearheaded by Paul Haggis and Nazanin Boniadi and signed by Sean Penn, Martin Scorsese, Harvey Weinstein and others to protest the imprisonment of Panahi.
Amnesty International reports that, " Some 406 foreign women were assisted by the IOM in Kosovo between December 2000 and December 2003.
Other remarkable pieces are The Apotheosis of Napoleon I, The Amnesty, Le Duc d ' Orleans, Bertholet, The Universal Exposition, The Second of December, 1851, The Establishment of the Republic, The Battle of Inkermann, and Napoleon's Tomb at the Invalides.

Amnesty and 8
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The arena played host to Amnesty International's A Conspiracy of Hope Benefit Concert on June 8, 1986.
On 8 September 2004, several leading Russian and international human rights organizations – including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Memorial, and Moscow Helsinki Group – issued a joint statement in which they pointed out the responsibility that Russian authorities bore in disseminating false information:
leader Srđa Popović ( also a member of the Democratic Party ) got arrested that day, roughed up, and then released on intervention from Amnesty International after being detained for 8 hours.

Amnesty and offered
" Amnesty was offered to those who gave up their allegiance to the Continental Army and Congress in favor of the British authorities, though Samuel Adams and John Hancock were still wanted for high treason.

Amnesty and those
Japanese immigration authorities work in unison with police to investigate those reported, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International have argued that those reported do not receive proper legal protection.
Amnesty International campaigns for the release of prisoners of conscience, which include both political prisoners as well as those imprisoned for their religious or philosophical beliefs.
In October 1999 the U. S. Affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Summary of Amnesty International's concerns on police abuse in Chicago " summarizing on-going concerns, including those relating to brutality and improper tactics or coercion during questioning ; the detention and interrogation of children in police custody ; allegations of excessive force against suspects ; the shooting of unarmed suspects ; the disproportionate number of victims who are members of ethnic or racial minorities ; the inadequacy of police complaints and disciplinary procedures and the lack of any external oversight of the complaints process.
Amnesty International organises campaigns to protect those arrested and or incarcerated as a prisoner of conscience because of their conscientious beliefs, particularly concerning intellectual, political and artistic freedom of expression and association.
It commonly contrasts itself with Amnesty International, which is concerned mainly with prisoners of conscience and refuses to defend those accused of encouraging violence.
Amnesty International Reports, " The government failed to take effective measures to investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the abduction and killing of three women in Ciudad Juárez ... or to combat the ongoing pattern of violence against women and discrimination in the city.
Amnesty International has, since its founding, pressured governments to release those persons it considers to be prisoners of conscience.
Amnesty International reported in 1980 that institutions ranked applicants according to the following criteria: students whose parents were both KSC members, children of farmers or workers, and those with one parent a KSC member.
According to the National Commission for the Status of Women ( NCSW ) and Amnesty International in Asia and the Pacific, 88 % of the female prisoners are in jail as a direct consequence of the Hudood Ordinance on adultery ( including both those awaiting trial and those convicted ).
Meanwhile, according to Amnesty International, " Survivors say that as the massacre took place, armed forces units with armoured vehicles were stationed outside the village and stopped some of those trying to flee from getting out of the village.
The Council on American Islamic Relations joined 50 other organizations, including Amnesty International, the Sikh Coalition, the Japanese American Citizens League and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in signing a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi comparing the hearings to those held by Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and calling them " divisive and wrong ", and " an affront to fundamental freedoms "
Amnesty states that in Iran there are " serious concerns regarding unfair trials and executions of those suspected of drug offences in Iran.
An Amnesty International report shows how, contrary to Cambodia ’ s obligations under international human rights law, those affected by evictions have had no opportunity for genuine participation and consultation beforehand.
* Amnesty was granted to those princes who had fought against Imperial troops, with the exception of the exiled descendants of the former " Winter King ", Elector Palatine Frederick V.
According to Amnesty International, at least 5 people convicted of " homosexual tendencies ", three men and two women, were executed in January 1990, as a result of the Iranian government's policy of calling for the execution of those who practice homosexuality.
In the 1960s a Friend named Eric Baker took part in the founding of Amnesty International, a human rights group primarily focused on the treatment of those in prison and those accused of crimes.
A 1981 memorandum of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Amnesty International claimed that all those in the reeducation camps were guilty of acts of national treason as defined in Article 3 of the 30 October 1967 Law on Counter-revolutionary Crimes ( enacted for the government of North Vietnam ), which specifies punishment of 20 years to life imprisonment or the death penalty.
According to an Amnesty International report in 1999, although 1, 600 bride-burning incidents were reported, only sixty were prosecuted and, of those, only two resulted in convictions.
On May 3, 2005, in a decision described as a " huge step backwards " by Amnesty International, the Supreme Court of Haiti quashed the verdict of the tribunal and overturned the sentences of all those imprisoned by the Criminal Tribunal of the Gonaives for their involvement in the Raboteau Massacre.

Amnesty and who
In the 1980s, Médecins Sans Frontières, the international medical charity, supplied photographic and other documentary evidence of ritualized cannibal feasts among the participants in Liberia's internecine strife to representatives of Amnesty International who were on a fact-finding mission to the neighboring state of Guinea.
According to Amnesty, in certain societies women who have not had the procedure are regarded as too unclean to handle food and water, and there is a belief that a woman's genitals might continue to grow without FGM, until they dangle between her legs.
In 2002, Amnesty International sent a letter to FARC-EP Commander Manuel Marulanda condemning kidnapping and hostage-taking as well as rejecting the threats directed at municipal or judicial officials and their families, arguing that they are civilians who are protected by international humanitarian law as long as they do not participate in hostilities.
* The Amnesty Committee considered applications from individuals who applied for amnesty in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy.
Participants included MEPs, Amnesty International observers and random individuals who travelled from abroad to support LGBT Latvians and their friends and families.
Bokassa allegedly participated in the massacre, beating some of the children to death with his cane ; however, the initial reports received by Amnesty International indicated only that the 100 or more school students who died actually suffocated or were beaten to death while being forced into a small jail cell following their arrest.
However, his record was beaten in 2010 by the Freman College Amnesty group, who held 23 demonstrations.
The tour was sponsored by Amnesty International, Peta 2, Greenpeace and Innes Clothing ( who supported a clothing drive for local homeless and youth shelters ).
* Amnesty International, to which the band donated money from the sale of The People and the Gun, have supported for a long time and who were one of the sponsors of their 2010 ' The Economy Sucks Let's Party Tour '.
Cao Đài's first disciples, Ngô Văn Chiêu, Cao Quỳnh Cư, Phạm Công Tắc and Cao Hoài Sang, claimed to have received direct communications from God, who gave them explicit instructions for establishing a new religion that would commence the Third Era of Religious Amnesty.
Mr M Warren-Smith ( who was formerly head of Darwin House and Religious Studies ) and Dr P Pack, ( former head of maths and also the chair of Amnesty International's International Executive Committee.
By 1982, Amnesty had lost the services of two key staff members who had successfully guided the first wave ( 1976 – 1981 ) of their benefit shows: Peter Luff ( the 1976 & 1977 shows ) and Peter Walker ( the 1979 & 1981 shows ).
The line-up of musicians included several who were already veterans of earlier Amnesty benefits in the UK and / or USA: Bob Geldof, Peter Gabriel, Jackson Browne and Lou Reed.
The 2006 show was coordinated by British comedian Eddie Izzard – who had coordinated the 2001 Amnesty show.
( The sole exception is Eric Idle who did not participate in any Amnesty shows until the 2012 Secret Policeman's Ball )
" In the month that followed the attacks, when New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani refused to cash a $ 10 million check written by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in light of the Prince's suggestion that the attacks were an indication that the United States " should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause ," McKinney published an open letter to the Saudi Prince, in which she wrote of her disappointment at Giuliani's action and stated, " Let me say that there are a growing number of people in the United States who recognize, like you, that U. S. policy in the Middle East needs serious examination ... Your Royal Highness, many of us here in the United States have long been concerned about reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that reveal a pattern of excessive, and often indiscriminate, use of lethal force by Israeli security forces in situations where Palestinian demonstrators were unarmed and posed no threat of death or serious injury to the security forces or to others.
* Mid-June-London-based human rights group Amnesty International criticizes India, along with Bangladesh and Pakistan, for insufficiently protecting the rights of women, who, it says, are subjected to negative bias in investigations of abuse.
Amnesty International conducted an on-site investigation of the incident in collaboration with military experts, using interviews with UNIFIL staff and civilians in the compound, and posing questions to the IDF, who did not reply.
Luis Kutner ( June 9, 1908 – March 1, 1993 ), was a U. S. human rights activist and lawyer who co-founded Amnesty International with Peter Benenson in 1961, and created the concept of a living will.
However, recently accusations have been raised from groups such as Amnesty International, who have claimed that practices of compulsory sterilization have been occurring for people who have already reached their one child quota.

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