This is why, since 1894, the Office of the Pardon Attorney has tried to impose some guidelines on the process and decide which cases should be eligible for clemency at all.
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Caren Morrison,
The Conversation,
22 Sep. 2026
The junta has tried to compel civil servants living in Myanmar to come back to work.
But few Fascists were ever formally prosecuted for their crimes, and a general amnesty (granted by Palmiro Togliatti, the pragmatic head of the Italian Communist Party) was announced in 1946.
—
Max Norman,
Harpers Magazine,
22 Sep. 2026
Flávio Bolsonaro’s main target is the judiciary that prosecuted and ultimately imprisoned his father.
—
Andre Pagliarini,
The Conversation,
22 Sep. 2026
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