Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has pardoned more than 1,000 prisoners to coincide with the holy month of Ramadan, the presidency said. The president’s office said an additional 70 protesters from the pro-democracy Hirak movement – who are awaiting trial for public order offences – would be offered clemency. Among those …
Read More »Burundi president pardons 40% of inmates to free up prisons
Burundi is to free 5,255 prisoners as part of a presidential pardon aimed at emptying overcrowded jails, according to a decree seen by AFP on Monday. In the decree, President Evariste Ndayishimiye said he is “convinced that an exceptional measure of clemency is needed to decongest prisons and improve conditions …
Read More »Three young Tunisians ‘sentenced to 30 years’ for smoking Cannabis
Three young Tunisian men are reported to have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for smoking cannabis at a football stadium. A spokesperson at the regional court that delivered the sentence said that it was based on three separate laws which include 10 years for drug consumers and traffickers …
Read More »Congo: Laurent Desiré Kabila’s murderer and his co-accused pardoned
Incarcerated for 15 years and sentenced to death in the 2001 assassination trial of the former Congolese president Laurent Desiré Kabila, Eddy Kapend will benefit from a presidential pardon. A measure granted by the current President Felix Tshisekedi to all the persons condemned in the frame of this trial. Sentenced …
Read More »United States: At the end of his mandate Donald Trump pardons his relatives
In the USA, President Donald trump whose mandate ends in few days, continues pardoning his relatives and refuses to accept his defeat. If these presidential graces are a tradition at the end of a mandate, people who benefit from it are debating. This 22nd December, Donald Trump has given a …
Read More »United States: A wasted polemic around a decision of Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s day are counted in the White House. On 20th January the most decried American President will give the oval office to Joe Biden, elected 46th president of the united states. It’s a tradition in the United States. At the end of November, every year, the President pardons a …
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