Fall 2007, Gaspar Forteza, “Regarding Simón y otros: Accountability in Argentina and International Human Rights as Domestic Positive Law”, inFIU Law Review[1], volume 3, number 1,→ISSN, archived fromthe original on3 July 2020, pages188, 217-218:
Argentina has seen few legal issues as contentiously debated as these two laws ofamnesty during the last two decades.[…] Pursuant to the Convention on Forced Disappearance,amnesties may not contemplate a statutory limitation period less than that corresponding to the gravest crime punishable by domestic laws, provided there is a pre-existing domestic norm of “fundamental character” requiring that limitation.
2013 December 18, CNN Staff, “Russia amnesty could free Pussy Riot, benefit Greenpeace members”, inCNN[2]:
Russian lawmakers backed a sweepingamnesty law Wednesday that could see jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk protest band released early and arrested Greenpeace activists avoiding prison, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.
2023 February 11, Christian Edwards and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, “Quake-hit Turkey and Syria face years of rebuilding. Experts say it didn’t have to be this way”, inCNN[3]:
Fall 2007, Gaspar Forteza, “Regarding Simón y otros: Accountability in Argentina and International Human Rights as Domestic Positive Law”, inFIU Law Review[4], volume 3, number 1,→ISSN, archived fromthe original on3 July 2020, pages187, 229:
Shortly after the end of military rule in 1983, the Argentinean National Congress passed legislation that effectivelyamnestied many persons who allegedly committed human rights violations such as torture, extra-judicial killing, and forced disappearance.[…] In other words, a government may be justified inamnestying military actions because the alternative would result in the destruction of the democratic state.
2019 January 19, Stephen Collinson and Maegan Vazquez, quotingAnn Coulter, “Trump’s offer of temporary protection for immigrants to end shutdown is a ‘non-starter,’ say Democrats”, inCNN[5]:
“100 miles of border wall in exchange foramnestying millions of illegals. So if we grant citizenship to a BILLION foreigners, maybe we can finally get a full border wall,” Coulter wrote in another tweet.
2022 August 8, Radina Gigova, quotingVolodymyr Zelenskyy, “Amnesty regrets ‘distress’ caused by report on Ukrainian military, but stands by findings”, inCNN[6]:
“This is such immoral selectivity,” he added. “Anyone whoamnesties Russia and who artificially creates a such informational context where some attacks by terrorists are supposedly justified or supposedly understandable cannot fail to understand that, in doing so, they are helping the terrorists.”
2024 January 11, Zachary B. Wolf, quotingRon DeSantis, “The 2024 primary campaigns have already changed the Republican Party”, inCNN[7]:
“The number of people that will beamnestied when I’m president is zero,” DeSantis said, when asked if he would allow any of the 10 million to stay in the US.
