Juan Carlos Apitz, dean of the Law School at the Central University of Venezuela, argues that the end of the amnesty law amounts to “an admission of its failure.” These decisions, he says, taken ...

Report by Joe Farchakh, English adaptation by Mariella Succar When general amnesty is mentioned in Lebanon, memories often return to the post-civil war amnesty law of 1991, which ...

Rights groups criticize exclusions of military and high-profile political prisoners while NGOs say that hundreds of political detainees are still in Venezuelan jails | Anadolu ...

The amnesty draft law, repeatedly debated in parliament since its introduction in 2020, has been further delayed by fresh divisions that have continued since last April, amid renewed efforts to revive ...

Members of Venezuela's opposition, prisoners' rights organizations, and relatives of political detainees reacted cautiously on Friday to a newly enacted amnesty law intended to release hundreds of ...

FILE - A cross with a legend that reads in Spanish, "Sanctuary for memory," marks an area where bodies were exhumed, in what used to be part of the Cabitos military headquarters, in Huamanga, Peru, ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Members of Venezuela ’s opposition, prisoners' rights groups and relatives of people long detained for political reasons gave a lukewarm reception Friday to an amnesty ...

Feb 5 (Reuters) - An amnesty law being considered in Venezuela's legislature that would grant immediate clemency to people jailed for participating in political protests or critiquing public figures ...

LIMA, Peru — Lawyers for victims of human rights abuses during Peru’s armed conflict vowed to appeal to international bodies Thursday to knock down an amnesty law passed by the country’s Congress the ...