pardons

Chile rejects pardons proposed by Catholic Church (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A police officer looks on as people hold portraits of family members who were dissidents killed during the dictatorship of former Gen. Augusto Pinochet outside La Moneda government palace in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday July 21, 2010. The Roman Catholic Church handed Chile's President Sebastian Pinera a petition for massive pardons that include military officials who committed crimes against humanity during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-90). (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Chile’s conservative president rejected a proposal by the Roman Catholic Church for sweeping pardons of elderly and sick prisoners that would have freed military officers convicted of human…

Russian president pardons 4 spies for swap with US (AP)

July 8th, 2010

FILE - This undated file image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads 'Russia, Moscow. London, Stone age.' (AP Photo, File) NO SALESAP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree pardoning four convicted foreign spies so they can be exchanged for 10 people accused of spying for Russia in the…

Under pressure, Malawi’s leader pardons gay couple (AP)

May 29th, 2010

FILE - In this photo taken  Thursday May, 20, 2010 file photo, Tiwonge Chimbalanga, foreground, and Steven Monjeza, left back, are led from court in Blantyre, Malawi, after a judge  sentenced the couple to the maximum 14 years in prison for unnatural acts and gross indecency under Malawi's anti-gay legislation. Malawi's president says he has pardoned and ordered the release of the two Saturday May 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Ntonya, File)AP - Malawi’s president on Saturday pardoned a gay couple who had been sentenced to 14 years in prison and ordered their release but insisted that homosexuality was still illegal…