Crossword clues for amnesty
amnesty
- Legal forgiveness
- Official forgiveness
- Mob witness's request
- Whistleblower's request
- Protection from prosecution
- Presidential pardon
- Political offender's desire
- Period of forgiveness
- Period free from punishment
- Organization that won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize, familiarly
- Mob witness' request
- Illegal immigrant's wish
- Forgiveness, as to draft evaders
- Forgiveness from the government
- Broad political pardon
- ___ International (human rights watchdogs)
- Forgiveness of a sort
- General pardon
- The formal act of liberating someone
- A warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
- A period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
- Pardon
- ___ International, 1977 Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Many set free, given pardon
- Official pardon
- Welcoming home girl getting pardon
- Free pardon from punishment
- Little woman should keep home - pardon?
- Legal pardon
- Lady guards breeding ground! Pardon?
- International organisation concerned with human rights
- Human rights group, ... International
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amnesty \Am"nes*ty\, n. [L. amnestia, Gr. ?, a forgetting, fr. ? forgotten, forgetful; 'a priv. + mna^sqai to remember: cf. F. amnistie, earlier amnestie. See Mean, v.]
Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
Amnesty \Am"nes*ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amnestied; p. pr. & vb. n. Amnestying.] To grant amnesty to.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pardon of past offenses," 1570s, from French amnestie "intentional overlooking," from Latin amnestia, from Greek amnestia "forgetfulness (of wrong); an amnesty," from a-, privative prefix, "not" (see a- (3)), + mnestis "remembrance," related to mnaomai "I remember" (see mind (n.)). As a verb, from 1809. Amnesty International founded 1961 as Appeal for Amnesty. The name was changed 1963.
Wiktionary
n. 1 forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion. 2 An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection. vb. To grant a pardon (to a group)
WordNet
n. a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense [syn: pardon]
the formal act of liberating someone [syn: pardon, free pardon]
v. grant a pardon to (a group of people)
[also: amnestied]
Wikipedia
Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian drama film written and directed by Bujar Alimani. The film was selected as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Amnesty (I) is the fourth full-length album by electronica duo Crystal Castles, released on August 19, 2016, on Fiction Records and Casablanca Records. It is the first album since the departure of previous frontwoman Alice Glass in 2014. Released nearly four years after band's previous album, it marks the longest period between consecutive studio albums by the group.
Amnesty (from the Greek ἀμνηστία amnestia, "forgetfulness") is defined as: "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of persons, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of persons who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." It includes more than pardon, in as much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense. Amnesty is more and more used to express "freedom" and the time when prisoners can go free.
Amnesties, which in the United Kingdom may be granted by the crown or by an act of Parliament, were formerly usual on coronations and similar occasions, but are chiefly exercised towards associations of political criminals, and are sometimes granted absolutely, though more frequently there are certain specified exceptions. Thus, in the case of the earliest recorded amnesty, that of Thrasybulus at Athens, the thirty tyrants and a few others were expressly excluded from its operation; and the amnesty proclaimed on the restoration of Charles II of England did not extend to those who had taken part in the execution of his father. Other famous amnesties include: Napoleon's amnesty of March 13, 1815 from which thirteen eminent persons, including Talleyrand, were exempt; the Prussian amnesty of August 10, 1840; the general amnesty proclaimed by the emperor Franz Josef I of Austria in 1857; the general amnesty granted by President of the United States, Andrew Johnson, after the American Civil War (1861-April 9, 1865), in 1868, and the French amnesty of 1905. Amnesty in U.S. politics in 1872 meant restoring the right to vote and hold office to ex-Confederates, which was achieved by act of Congress. Those were true amnesties, pardoning past violations without changing the laws violated.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986—signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986—granted amnesty to about 3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
On January 2, 2014, The New York Times called on the United States to grant amnesty to Edward Snowden, the fugitive who stole U.S. state secrets when working for an NSA contractor and released them to the world.
Amnesty is a pardon extended by the government to a group or class of persons.
Amnesty may also refer to:
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Amnesty International, a human rights organization
- Amnesty the game, a game related to Amnesty International
- Tax amnesty, an opportunity for forgiveness of a tax liability
- Amnesty clause, a salary cap provision in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
- Amnesty (film), a 2011 Albanian drama film
- Amnesty Act, an act that removed restriction from secessionists in the American Civil War
- Amnesty for Polish citizens in the Soviet Union
- Amnesty of 1947, a law for soldiers and activists of the Polish anti-communist underground
- Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, a United States Supreme Court case dealing with a challenge to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Usage examples of "amnesty".
But while we are willing to accord them their enfranchisement and here to-day give our votes that they may be amnestied, while we declare our hearts open and free from any vindictive feelings towards them, we would say to those gentlemen on the other side that there is another class of citizens in the country, who have certain rights and immunities which they would like you, sirs, to remember and respect.
According to both Amnesty International and the Muslim Brotherhood, groups of prisoners suspected of anti-government sentiments were taken from detention camps, machine-gunned en masse, and then dumped into pre-dug pits that were covered with earth and left unmarked.
The general declaration of amnesty was somewhat narrowed in its scope by the enumeration, at the end of the proclamation, of certain classes which were excepted from its benefit.
A fourteenth class was excepted, not from the benefits of the proclamation of amnesty, but from the necessity of taking the oath demanded from the other classes.
The classes excepted were more numerous and far more comprehensive than those excluded from amnesty under the proclamation issued by Mr.
Having by the proclamation extended amnesty on the simple condition of an oath of loyalty to the Union and the Constitution, and obedience to the Decree of Emancipation, the President had established a definite and easily ascertainable constituency of white men in the South to whom the work of reconstructing civil government in the several States might be intrusted.
Not only had the general mass of rebels been pardoned by the amnesty proclamation of May 29th, but many thousands of the classes excepted in that instrument had afterwards received special pardons from the President.
President is hereby authorized, at any time hereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may have participated in the existing rebellion in any State or part thereof, pardon and amnesty, with such exceptions, at such times and on such conditions as he may deem expedient for the public welfare.
President Lincoln issued a proclamation granting a great number of pardons upon certain specified conditions, and subsequently President Johnson issued his celebrated amnesty proclamation granting pardons to certain specified classes in the South that had participated in the Rebellion.
States from voting or holding office who have received pardon and amnesty in accordance with the Constitution and Laws.
On the 25th of June amnesty was extended to about one thousand persons, and during the remainder of the Congress some five hundred more were relieved from political disability.
There was a disposition rather to classify and reserve for further consideration the really offending men and give general amnesty to all others.
The impossibility of examining into the merits of individuals by tens of thousands, and of establishing the quality and degree of their offenses, was so obvious that representatives on both sides of the House demanded an Act of general amnesty, excepting therefrom only the few classes whose names would lead to discussion and possibly to the defeat of the beneficent measure.
But the Democratic leaders were not willing to accept amnesty for their political friends in the South, if at the same time they must take with it the liberation of the colored man from odious personal discriminations.
There was no disposition, as General Butler explained, to unite the Civil-rights Bill with the Amnesty Bill, because the former could be passed by a majority, while the latter required two-thirds.