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Amnesty
2000 Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75

1993 Luis Kutner, U.S. co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84

1992 Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty Intl, dies

1991 Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes

1988 Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires

1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley

1986 U.S. Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens and offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

1986 Amnesty International megaconcert

1983 Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins

1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program

1976 Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize

1976 Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals

1974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters

1968 Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms

1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty

1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts

1946 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty

1932 Canon Paul Oestreicher, CEO (British section, Amnesty International

1905 Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg

1904 Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty International co-founder, Nobel '74

1893 US President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy

1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)

1863 President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters

1862 Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname



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