The OECD warned that repeated amnesties in OECD countries have shown that amnesties tend to encourage tax evasion once the grace period is over.
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There are other reasons why undoing amnesties might be bad.
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Indonesia granted tax amnesties in 1984 and 2008, OECD said.
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The United States has itself granted periodic amnesties to undocumented migrants.
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Hundreds of thousands of weapons were handed in during subsequent amnesties.
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Cancelling the amnesties will allow prosecutors to resume investigating the abduction.
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In the years gone by, states have enacted their own firearms amnesties.
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There was, for example, no question of amnesties for crimes against humanity.
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The amnesties are targeted to raise about 8 billion euros next year.
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President Win Myint has pardoned thousands of prisoners in amnesties since last month.
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President Win Myint pardoned thousands of prisoners in two mass amnesties last month.
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He emphasized reconciliation, even raising the possibility of amnesties for low-level criminals.
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An opinion poll last month showed 63 percent of Slovaks want the amnesties canceled.
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The amnesties had come to symbolize Slovakia's slide away from democracy in the 1990s.
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An opinion poll in February showed 63 percent of Slovaks want the amnesties canceled.
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They also reappear in the welcome amnesties for the condemned granted on church festivals.
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When Kovac died last October, current President Andrej Kiska urged lawmakers to cancel the amnesties.
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They have since lived in military-run camps awaiting amnesties promised under a peace deal.
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Police had charged 13 people in the case but it was stopped by the amnesties.
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A second reason we have always opposed amnesties is that they encourage future illegal immigration.
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President Win Myint has pardoned thousands of other prisoners in mass amnesties since last month.
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The work that amnesties, statutes of limitations and other such rules do is often invisible.
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No more amnesties until, at the very least, you pay for the ones already provided.
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THE holy month of Ramadan used to be an occasion for royal amnesties in Saudi Arabia.
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That some countries have torn up amnesties may make achieving peace or democracy harder in others.
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Italy, which suffers from high tax evasion, has often resorted to tax amnesties to raise money.
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They were freed as part of mass amnesties that take place annually around Myanmar's new year.
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Since then, the fighters have been scattered in camps in neighboring Uganda and Rwanda awaiting amnesties.
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Instead, they appear to have settled with their respective governments, in a series of quiet amnesties.
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The constitutional change, backed by 124 out of 150 lawmakers, allows parliament to cancel the amnesties.
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A lack of credibility often hinders amnesties—scofflaws figure they can just wait until the next one.
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When the older Kovac died last October, current President Andrej Kiska urged lawmakers to cancel the amnesties.
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Immigration agents testifying before the panel called the amnesties a definite "pull force" for further illegal entries.
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The other said that states should not offer pardons or amnesties in cases of serious rights violations.
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The ruling parties have proposed a constitutional change that, if approved, would allow parliament to cancel the amnesties.
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Past efforts to attract black money into the light—using tax amnesties, for example—have had little effect.
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That is why in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Central America the settlement of armed conflicts involved amnesties.
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And ultimately, she said, amnesties are common because the gains in productivity and efficiency are worth that risk.
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But similar to his previous blanket amnesties, using TPS in this situation would be unprecedented and legally questionable.
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TPS has an interesting history in the current debate over the president's powers to unilaterally grant blanket amnesties.
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Campaigners say 25 political prisoners were released in three presidential amnesties since April, alongside thousands of other inmates.
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He is also exploring a crop substitution for illicit crops and amnesties for low level drug dealers and farmers.
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Various amnesties granted legal title to gecekondu dwellers, making them stronger stakeholders and allowing them to leverage property assets.
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The precedent from previous tax amnesties is mixed, and the revenue impact could be limited or a one-off boost.
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"In Trump's high-profile August immigration speech in Phoenix, he pledged to "immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties.
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Its coalition partner, the far-right League, favors amnesties, which bring money into the treasury and are popular with voters.
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But he is also exploring a crop substitution program, relaxing prohibition and amnesties for low level drug dealers and farmers.
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When Emperor Hirohito -- also known as Emperor Showa -- died in 1989, more than 10 million people received amnesties, Tanaka said.
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Other Latin American countries including Brazil, Chile, Peru and Colombia have held amnesties in recent years or are starting soon.
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But activists say the panels were set up under legislation which allowed perpetrators amnesties and did not meet international standards.
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Fico made a U-turn in March when an opinion poll showed 63 percent of Slovaks wanted the amnesties canceled.
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Most principled people oppose amnesties because they reward past bad behavior and reduce incentives to refrain from future bad behavior.
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In a series of amnesties in 2011, most of these fighters were released, and made their way back to Saraqib.
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Today, the most common methods of transitional justice include domestic or international trials for individual perpetrators, truth commissions and amnesties.
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Vague references to eventual amnesties and reconciliation are not enough; detailed plans must be drafted in consultation with affected parties.
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Self-bestowed amnesties by military regimes were repealed in Argentina and unpicked by the courts in Chile, but not in Brazil.
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With the legal process complete, they were pardoned in time for a third and final wave of prisoner amnesties on Tuesday.
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After all, Trump said during his campaign that he would "immediately terminate" what he called President Barack Obama's illegal executive amnesties.
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We consider the merits of challenging Latin America's amnesties; justice might be served, but unearthing the past comes with its own perils.
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But he said he would prefer to do so using local deals and amnesties that allow rebels to leave for other areas.
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Its ban on amnesties for such crimes gave legal grounds for courts in Argentina, El Salvador and Guatemala to try alleged perpetrators.
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" Increases Illegal Immigration and Guarantees Future Amnesties: "provides immigration benefits to certain illegal aliens who came to the United States as juveniles.
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President Trump, who campaigned on a promise to end Obama's "illegal executive amnesties," announced plans in fall 2017 to rescind the program.
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Under the constitution of the Southern African nation, Mugabe, who routinely pardons prisoners, is required to consult his cabinet on all amnesties.
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Similarly, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson issued a series of Civil War-era amnesties aimed at bringing the country back together.
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This was combined with constitutionally protected amnesties, direct positions in the Senate, a favorable electoral system and supermajoritarian thresholds for constitutional change.
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About 550,000 people will be given amnesties for their crimes to encourage criminals to "reform and rehabilitate," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said.
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During Syria's war, the government has issued similar amnesties before to pardon those evading mandatory military service, who can face years in prison.
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But there's a problem with that theory: Amnesties, though not always labeled as such, are central to how the nation's legal system functions.
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And it would be basically irreversible because no presidential administration has dared to even try to rescind immigration amnesties provided by previous presidents.
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Republicans were and still are willing to find a DACA fix, so long as border security conditions are met to prevent future amnesties.
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After Australia implemented a similar ban, the country destroyed more than a million weapons, and additional gun buybacks and amnesties have been conducted since.
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"Many people are afraid of being conscripted into the army and having to fight, so we need to negotiate amnesties and exceptions," he said.
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"When people begin to see that they can form part of mechanisms that can punish people, then you can start talking about amnesties," Buscaglia said.
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The government introduced incentive packages and tax amnesties to businesses and subsidies to certain sectors in the recent years to stimulate economy and boost growth.
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In countries like Spain and America, politicians' reluctance to acknowledge that they needed foreign workers led to growing irregular immigration and, later, to embarrassing amnesties.
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The government also offers frequent tax amnesties to encourage people with hidden wealth to declare their assets, hoping to expand Pakistan's extremely narrow tax base.
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"This step allows us to come to terms with the ill-conceived legacy of Meciar amnesties," leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico said before the vote.
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The island has just 64,000 inhabitants but they have presented 27,000 requests to take advantage of amnesties for illegal building over the last 30 years.
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The move represented a turnaround for Khan who had accused previous governments of using amnesties to legitimise illegally acquired wealth hidden inside Pakistan and abroad.
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The amnesty represents a turnaround for Prime Minister Imran Khan who accused previous governments of using amnesties to clean up illegally acquired wealth hidden outside Pakistan.
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Congress approved seven amnesties between 1986 and 2000, and illegal immigration continued to rise after all of them, primarily because of the easy availability of jobs.
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This dilemma was apparent (or should have been) in the Obama years, when a far more pro-immigration administration pursued sweeping amnesties, eventually by executive fiat.
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While many structures are abandoned, a few residents were able to negotiate amnesties with local authorities in the late 1980s and early 2000s, to avoid eviction.
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STEPHEN SILVERSan Francisco It is true that tax amnesties on underreported income were once a regular feature of Greek tax administration ("To hell and back", October 5th).
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And much of our current immigration situation is directly attributable to the series of amnesties that began with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA).
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It has been consistently interpreted to include the power to grant broad amnesties from prosecution to large groups when the president deems it in the public interest.
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The downstream effects of the chain migration categories are often overlooked by amnesty advocates and are a significant reason why Dreamer amnesties have never gotten through Congress.
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Russia, meanwhile, has stepped up pressure to repatriate offshore assets, including via amnesties, a special bond program and threats of punishment against those failing to repatriate flight capital.
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The 5-Star has opposed tax amnesties in the past but the League, which has a traditional voter base of self-employed businessmen, had pushed for the measure.
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Another apparent order draft, titled "Ending unconstitutional executive amnesties," would end a major Obama program that has effectively protected more than 740,000 unauthorized immigrants from deportation since 2012.
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Canceling the program is one move Mr. Trump could make to satisfy his supporters, who reject Mr. Obama's executive actions as illegal amnesties and examples of presidential overreach.
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From a candidate who promised to "immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties," the proposal represents a sharp turn that provides amnesty to nearly two million people.
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Borghi said tax amnesties allowing people to settle disputes with the authorities by paying a limited sum had yielded more than expected, as had measures against tax evasion.
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We will immediately terminate president Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give amnity to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants.
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Israeli officials have previously signaled they are willing to repeat past amnesties of jailed Palestinians in order to recover the two soldiers' remains and the civilians held by Hamas.
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There's this whole new mass of information that becomes available — I'm not talking about the elite, but about hundreds of thousands of people who have been using tax amnesties.
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It also said that tax amnesties over the past eight years had raked in close to €85bn of extra tax, as more than 500,000 taxpayers had disclosed offshore assets.
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The anti-establishment 5-Star has always opposed amnesties - a frequently used policy in Italy where people or companies can avoid being pursued for tax dodging by paying a fee.
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He said during the campaign that he would end Obama's "illegal amnesties," and one that focused on undocumented parents of DREAMers and US citizens was already rescinded by the administration.
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Earlier this month, Uganda's government said it had detained more than 100 former M23 rebels trying to return to Congo from camps in Uganda where they have been awaiting amnesties.
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Moon Jae-in, the left-of-centre president who won by a landslide in a snap election in May, is the first to promise an end to politically-motivated amnesties.
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Southeast Asia's biggest economy this month is winding up one of world's most successful tax amnesties, with at least 270,25.23 taxpayers declaring more than $13 billion of assets so far.
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As long as the jobs magnet continues, an amnesty will entice more parents to bring their children illegally to America and create pressure for yet more amnesties in the future.
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Indeed, the pardon power under Article II of the Constitution covers not just pardons but commutations and conditional commutations, as well as remissions of fines and forfeitures, respites and amnesties.
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Transition accords in other countries have involved concessions and compromises on constitutional provisions, interim governing arrangements, the role of the armed forces, amnesties, transitional justice and sometimes even power-sharing.
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"We had other tax amnesties, but this time there's a much broader transparency framework in the world," said Humberto Bertazza, a partner at Buenos Aires accounting firm Bertazza Nicolini Corti & Asociados.
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Another promise has been to lower rising homicide rates in the cartel-ridden country through a vague proposal to grant amnesties to some nonviolent criminals, especially those held on drug offenses.
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Israeli officials previously said they sought to recover the two soldiers' remains and the two civilians held by Hamas, signaling willingness to repeat past amnesties of jailed Palestinians in a trade.
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He&aposs also promised to grant amnesties to some criminals amid a wave of violence that&aposs the bloodiest seen in at least two decades -- and to take a reduced presidential salary.
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There must be "no pardons or amnesties for those responsible for ordering or carrying out gross human rights violations and committing international crimes such as war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide".
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Analysts say President Ilham Aliyev has included some political prisoners in amnesties in recent years to avoid complaints over crackdowns on free speech in Azerbaijan, a major oil and natural gas exporter.
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We have always opposed amnesties first because they unfairly add extra competition to struggling American workers in the legal workforce (the same reason we have fought for serious reductions in legal immigration).
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Analysts say President Ilham Aliyev has included some political prisoners in amnesties in recent years to deflect complaints over crackdowns on free speech in Azerbaijan, a major oil and natural gas exporter.
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Besides tackling corruption, Lopez Obrador has proposed decreasing his presidential salary and also granting amnesties to some criminals amid a wave of violence that&aposs the bloodiest seen in at least two decades.
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Fighting that pitted security forces against an Islamist insurgency eventually killed as many as 200,000 people, with Bouteflika overseeing amnesties that drew the conflict towards a close after he became president in 1999.
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Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were included in a presidential amnesty for 6,520 prisoners on Tuesday and President Win Myint has pardoned thousands of other prisoners in mass amnesties in recent weeks.
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He has called on state officials, who have been historically pressured by the ruling Socialist Party to publicly back Maduro, to disavow the government, and has promised future amnesties for those that do.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's ruling parties proposed on Wednesday cancelling amnesties granted by former Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar to his secret service chief and 12 others for the 1995 kidnapping of the then president's son.
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"In the case of Syria, we are there to remind everyone that where there are allegations that reach the threshold of war crimes or crimes against humanity that amnesties are not permissible," he said.
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"In the case of Syria, we are there to remind everyone that where there are allegations that reach the threshold of war crimes or crimes against humanity that amnesties are not permissible," Hussein said.
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When Meciar was interim president after Kovac's term expired in 1998, he granted the amnesties preventing prosecution of the 13, including his close ally Ivan Lexa, who was head of the country's secret service.
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In the financial crisis, there have been a number of tax amnesties in lots of countries that many tax evaders have used [where they can disclose their offshore holdings and pay a smaller penalty].
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In a political landscape where every year seemed to bring a new bipartisan push for amnesties and immigration increases, his xenophobic style was an effective political marker for anyone with inchoate anxieties about immigration.
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Colombia used to use unconditional amnesties to curtail conflicts—it did so in the 1950s and 1989-91—but these are now frowned upon under the Rome statute which set up the International Criminal Court.
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Some politicians, including leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico - who had Meciar as a junior coalition partner in his first government in 2006-2010 - have condemned the amnesties but long insisted they could not be revoked.
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Governments of all political stripes have preferred to serve up regular amnesties for illegal construction work, allowing culprits to regularise their position with the payment of a modest fine while allowing the structures to stand.
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He has said that more than a decade of war against drug traffickers is officially over, and is exploring a crop substitution for illicit crops, relaxing prohibition and amnesties for low level drug dealers and farmers.
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In 85033, the Continental Congress briefly contemplated encouraging states to enact amnesties or oblivions that would exculpate those loyalists who remained in the United States but had fought for Britain, a measure that never took hold.
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In other words, if you define amnesty broadly, as a rule or discretionary decision that exempts certain people from the legal consequences of their wrongdoing, then the American legal system is amnesties all the way down.
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Current law — through its extended-family chain migration categories — offers even more temptation for parents of other nations to create the Dreamer dilemma for their own children if they believe DACA-type amnesties may become available.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's parliament paved the way on Thursday to cancel amnesties granted by former Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar to his secret service chief and 12 others for the 1995 kidnapping of the then president's son.
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Lopez Obrador has vowed to shake up Mexico's war on drug cartels and wants to rewrite the rules, aides have said, suggesting negotiated peace and amnesties rather than a hardline strategy critics blame for perpetuating violence.
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"The decision of the DUP to support it is in direct contravention of the (2014) Stormont House Agreement which ruled out any amnesties and instead provided a range of mechanisms to deal with the past," she said.
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The former World Bank managing director said a parliament hearing that while many countries have done tax amnesties, Indonesia "is at the highest position" among them with revenue collection equivalent to 0.65 percent of gross domestic product.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Hundreds of political prisoners have been released from Myanmar's jails in amnesties in recent years, including dozens freed in January 2000, days before democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's party took power for the first time.
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Number Five: Cancel Unconstitutional Executive Orders & Enforce All Immigration Laws We will immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties, in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants.
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The previous coalition between the 5-Star and the far-right League which collapsed last month, took a softer line on tax evasion, promoting instead amnesties for offenders, allowing them to settle disputed claims by paying reduced sums.
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He helped to secure a popular approval in a referendum last May that called for the government to be banned from altering legislation by emergency decree, and advocated a ban on amnesties and pardons for graft-related crimes.
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As new amnesties loom on the legislative horizon, the low standards for the DACA program should have every American wondering just exactly who will be given amnesty if the more expansive DREAM Act, or similar legislation, should pass.
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Iohannis spearheaded a national referendum where an overwhelming majority of Romanians said they wanted the government to be banned from altering legislation via emergency decrees, and advocated a national ban on granting amnesties and pardons for graft-related crimes.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's parliament on Wednesday canceled amnesties granted by former prime minister Vladimir Meciar to his secret service chief and 12 others for the 1995 kidnapping of the then president's son, paving the way for a fresh probe.
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There are also the countless little everyday amnesties when officials exercise their discretion: the prosecutor who declines to pursue a case or drops certain charges as part of a plea bargain, the police officer who doesn't write a ticket.
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In 2017, Caputova worked for an NGO that initiated the eventual cancellation of amnesties granted by former prime minister Vladimir Meciar to his secret service chief and 12 others over the 1995 kidnapping of the son of then-president Michal Kovac.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's constitutional court on Wednesday upheld parliament's decision to cancel amnesties granted by former prime minister Vladimir Meciar to his secret service chief and 12 others over the 1995 kidnapping of the son of the then president, Michal Kovac.
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While 5-Star has opposed tax amnesties in the past, the right-wing League, with its traditional voter-base of self-employed businessmen, has pushed for the measure, arguing it could raise billions of euros for the cash-strapped treasury.
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The dilemma of the so-called Dreamers has its origins in Congress passing the big 1986 amnesty and several smaller amnesties in the 1990s without including a guarantee that U.S. employers would keep jobs out of the hands of illegal workers.
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Duque&aposs proposals to overturn negotiated amnesties, or limit the former rebel&aposs participation in politics, require broad-based support in congress that he doesn&apost currently have and in any case could be challenged by the former rebels in Colombia&aposs courts.
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"They have decided to stop helping clients to hide money," said Miami-based lawyer Martin Litwak, founder of Litwak & Partners, which has advised clients participating in tax amnesties across the region and had Argentine clients who received letters from JPMorgan and UBS.
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Tax amnesties allowing people to settle disputes with the authorities by paying a limited sum are yielding more than expected, and on Tuesday parliamentary commissions voted to extend the measure to July 31, compared with the original cut-off date of April 30.
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The panel will present its findings to the Human Rights Council in Geneva next week and urged it to "ensure that there are no pardons or amnesties for those responsible for ordering or carrying out gross human rights violations and committing international crimes."
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"This is yet another betrayal, just like breaking his promise to deport all illegal immigrants and to repeal President Obama's executive amnesties," said Jared Taylor, the editor of the online magazine American Renaissance, who spoke highly of Mr. Trump during the campaign.
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The first is to forget the past and move on; the second is to have Nuremberg-style trials for the human rights violators; and the third is to have a truth and reconciliation procedure that will provide for amnesties or reduced punishment for the violators.
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Though there have been several state-based amnesties over recent years, this is the first to be called on a national scale since 1996, when the country was devastated by the Port Arthur Massacre, in Tasmania, which killed 35 people and wounded 23 others.
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist who won on Sunday after two previous attempts at the presidency, wants to rewrite the rules of the drug war, aides said, suggesting negotiated peace and amnesties for some of the very people currently being targeted by security forces.
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While he was interim president after Kovac's term expired, Meciar granted amnesties that prevented prosecution of 13 people, including a close ally who was head of the country's secret service (SIS), on suspicion they kidnapped Kovac's son to Austria, where he was dumped outside a police station.
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"Once it is known who is not involved, the mood of those not under investigation will be more positive, and I believe they will see that it's useless to try to pass amnesties or other measures to allow those who are corrupt to escape justice," he said.
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Previous truth and reconciliation commissions, a model popularized by hearings in South Africa in the 1990s that delved into its apartheid past, have received mixed reviews - seen as cathartic moments for victims but criticized for granting amnesties too liberally and only looking into politically significant cases.
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While he was interim president after Kovac's term expired in 1998, Meciar granted amnesties preventing prosecution of 13 people, including his close ally who was head of the country's secret service (SIS), suspected to have kidnapped Kovac's son to Austria, where he was dumped outside a police station.
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"If there is one public health intervention to curb gun injury that has been debunked by academics worldwide consistently, it's small-scale gun amnesties of exactly this type," said Philip Alpers, an adjunct associate professor at Sydney University who has reported on the wide gap between American and Australian gun homicide rates.
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After the Supreme Court upheld the injunction on President Obama's controversial, unilateral amnesties last week, House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) said the following: Today, Article I of the Constitution was vindicated.
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Liberals hailed those amnesties while paying less attention to the consequences of the Dreamer amnesty in particular: It created the impression that kids brought to the United States illegally would soon gain legal status, which in turn helped drive a surge in children being sent north without their parents, overwhelming the Border Patrol and saddling the Obama White House with a problem that it ultimately passed along to President Trump.
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