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  • Orléans. Villon owed his release to a general amnesty at the accession of King Louis XI and he became a free man again on the October 2, 1461. ...
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  • rights and environmental issues to NGOs, like Amnesty International and Greenpeace, who have a high level of legitimacy in the public sphere. ...
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  • that would commence the Third Era of Religious Amnesty. ===Development=== Cao Dai grew rapidly in the decade following its establishment as a ...
    12 KB (1,835 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
  • the past with the power to sometimes give amnesty to those who had violated ... Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Lives, with Amnesty International, Vanessa Baird ...
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  • upon oil production for 80 percent of its revenue. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have condemned the Nigerian government for ...
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  • He returned to Russia following the amnesty of 1913. ===After World War I=== Bogdanov served in World War I as a physician and played no role ...
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  • ===Amnesty International=== In the late 1960s, Buckley joined the Board of Directors of Amnesty ...
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  • throne back to Liliuokalani if she would grant amnesty to everyone involved (She initially refused). The United States House of Representatives agreed ...
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  • to surrender on Byam's promise of amnesty. However, when the slaves surrender, Oroonoko is whipped. To avenge his honor, and to express ...
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  • it is estimated by organizations such as Amnesty International that approximately ... Human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and the ...
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  • in what was described as a "lynching" by Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International, [http://web.amnesty.org/aidoc/ai.nsf/afec99eadc40eff880256e8f00 ...
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  • to grant a reprieve, and he refused to grant Tiso amnesty. Tiso was hanged on April 18, 1947. ==Legacy== Of all individuals in Slovak history ...
    13 KB (1,972 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
  • was never granted, the official postwar amnesty. After filling out the application ... Lee's example of applying for amnesty was an encouragement to ...
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  • Amnesty International has criticized the Cypriot government over the ... [http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/cyp-summary-eng Amnesty International ...
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  • strife in the 1980s to representatives of Amnesty International who were on a fact-finding mission to the neighboring state of Guinea. However ...
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  • * Political amnesty was applied. 150 personae non gratae of Turkey (descendants of the Ottoman dynasty) slowly acquired citizenship - the last ...
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  • Those who had been indicted received a blanket amnesty issued by President Andrew Johnson when he left office in 1869. ==Treason Today== ...
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  • On December 1, Amnesty International released a statement calling ... Amnesty International, Article 301 PEN American Center also denounced ...
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  • and John Hancock were exempted from the general amnesty offered by Thomas Gage to Massachusetts rebels in 1775). He was a workhorse member of the Second ...
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  • 039;s political prisoners were freed in an amnesty, and trade unions were legalized. ... the State Counsellor position, she granted amnesty to the students who were ...
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