Legal pot has made Canadian justice a little fairer, with “heavily racialized” arrests for possession mostly ending. But vows on amnesty, illicit sales and Indigenous inclusion are works in progress.
Tag: Amnesties, Commutations and Pardons
With Trump Presidency Winding Down, Push for Assange Pardon Ramps Up
Supporters of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have enlisted a lobbyist with connections to the president and filed a clemency petition with the White House.
Your Thursday Briefing
A last-minute Brexit scramble.
Blackwater, Iraq and President Trump’s Pardon
Iraqi witnesses against Blackwater guards were promised justice after a mass killing in Baghdad in 2007. ‘Today,’ one said, the bullets still in his leg, ‘they proved to me it was just theater.’
Murderer Who Wielded Narwhal Tusk to Stop Terrorist Gets Royal Pardon
Queen Elizabeth II approved a rare form of clemency for an inmate who used a whale tusk to help end a deadly terrorist attack near London Bridge last year.
He Killed a Transgender Woman in the Philippines. Why Was He Freed?
The pardon of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton by President Rodrigo Duterte is the final chapter in a case that reignited debate over old defense treaties.
Duterte Pardons U.S. Marine Who Killed Transgender Woman
The Philippine president made the move, which riled nationalist and gay rights groups, in the interest of maintaining an “independent foreign policy.”
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro Pardons Political Opponents
President Nicolás Maduro cast his decree as a bid for unity, but many members of the political opposition quickly scorned it.
As Pandemic Rages, Sri Lanka’s President Pardons a War Criminal
Rights groups accused President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of taking advantage of the global chaos to free a soldier convicted of killing civilians.
Who Was Most Opposed to Freeing 2 Reporters in Myanmar? Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a former prisoner herself, resisted pressure to release the journalists, becoming angry when their case was raised.