The Iraqi judicial panel said that Hussein should be freed under the country's new amnesty law.
The last amnesty law passed in 1986 granted legal status to 2.7 million illegal immigrants.
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An amnesty law and his own immunity from the courts as a life senator are just two barriers.
That means they are outside the scope of the dictatorship's amnesty law, which covers offences committed up to 1978.
Even if a case eventually came to court, the general's own amnesty law would probably prove an insurmountable obstacle.
Claiming that his offences were expunged by an amnesty law passed last year, Mr Erdogan is putting together a new political party.
The amnesty law provoked outrage among his opponents, while former colonial power the Netherlands recalled its ambassador and froze aid in protest.
However, it later announced that the sentence served would be one year due to a 2006 amnesty law aimed at reducing prison overcrowding.
An amnesty law was introduced in 2000 to try to end a war waged by Kony and his LRA fighters for more than two decades.
But Uganda's public prosecutor has said the amnesty law does not apply to Caesar Acellam because he was one of the top rebel military strategists.
The armed forces want a guarantee that the courts will apply the amnesty law as the Pinochet regime intended, with no investigation of crimes between 1973 and 1978.
In August, Chile's Supreme Court had rejected General Pinochet's claim that he was immune from prosecution, both as a senator-for-life (a self-bestowed title) and under a 1980 amnesty law.
Apart from the difficulties of getting evidence that would stand up in court, the dictatorship left in place an amnesty law for crimes between 1973 and 1978, when most of the torture occurred.
He blames the so-called "pact of silence", which followed General Franco's death in 1975, in which an amnesty law, essentially forgiving Franco-era crimes, was approved as part of a precondition for a smooth transition to democracy.
But groups that want tighter immigration control say that just gives amnesty to law breakers.
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Under a 1986 "blanket amnesty" law signed by President Reagan, about 3 million undocumented immigrants from all countries were able to gain permanent residency.
What is more, many conservative Republicans oppose amnesty on law-and-order grounds.
Amnesty says the law has seen judicially approved eye-gougings and tooth extractions.
The Justice and Peace Law offers only limited amnesty to all those laying down their arms.
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We've been down this road before with politicians promising to enforce the law in return for amnesty.
Amnesty and others say that the law will not prevent paramilitaries being recycled back into the conflict as private security guards or army informers.
More restrictive company law and a police amnesty for companies that come clean have shrunk the number of active sokaiya from 6, 800 in 1982 to 600 by the end of last year, according to the National Police Agency.
Even as the U.S. wrestles with changes in immigration law and the possibility of amnesty for those who've broken it, it continues to fret about the offshoring of jobs to lower-wage locales.
Some say the bill grants amnesty to illegal immigrants who have already broken the law.
The main overhaul plan under consideration in Congress would grant legal status and citizenship to illegal immigrants, which many in the GOP see as a form of amnesty for people who broke U.S. law.
Amnesty says the government has drafted an anti-terror law that would effectively criminalise dissent as a "terrorist crime" and allow extended detention without charge or trial.
Conservative lawmakers and their supporters have long contended that giving legal status to people who broke the law to come to this country is unacceptable amnesty.
From the North American Union to the Law of the Sea Treaty to the illegal alien amnesty bill, America as we know it is fading fast.
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