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Venezuela’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Amnesty Law

April 14, 2016 Lucas Koerner, www.venezuelanalysis.com , ,
By Lucas Koerner for Venezuela Analysis - Caracas, April 12, 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) unanimously ruled on Monday that a controversial amnesty law passed by the country's opposition-controlled parliament is unconstitutional. The law that Venezuela's National Assembly approved on March 29 would have exonerated dozens of persons convicted of crimes over the last seventeen years, including those responsible for 2014's violent anti-government protests as well as the protagonists of the thwarted 2002 coup against then president Hugo Chávez.

In Venezuela Amnesty Bill Right Wing Confesses To 17 Years Of Crimes

March 16, 2016 Dr Francisco Dominguez, www.huffingtonpost.com ,
Dr Francisco Dominguez for The Huffington Post - Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes could not imagine how correct he was when he said that the challenge a Latin American writer faced was to produce fiction that was more extraordinary than reality itself. Venezuela's Right Wing Opposition has just managed to perform an event that surpasses Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magic realism: On 18th February 2016, making use of their majority in the National Assembly, they have passed an Amnesty Bill that seeks to provide legal impunity to acts of political delinquency they and their supporters have perpetrated for 17 years.

Renewed Pardon Hopes For Jailed Saudi Blogger Badawi

November 30, 2015 Staff, www.middleeasteye.net ,
By Staff of MEE - The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi expressed renewed hope on Saturday that her husband might soon be pardoned after a senior Swiss official said such a move was in the pipeline. Ensaf Haidar has been outspoken over the plight of her husband since he was detained in 2012 on cyber-crime charges and later sentenced for insulting Islam and calling for the end of the influence of religion on Saudi public life. Yves Rossier, the secretary of state at the Swiss foreign ministry, said in the newspaper La Liberte on Saturday: "A procedure for a pardon is now under way before the head of state, that is King Salman."

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