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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you tell people who have broken the law that they can stay here, that's amnesty.
The law cannot be suspended even during wartime and does not permit amnesty for those convicted.
Opinion polls show more than 60% of the population are against these plans and would prefer a more generous amnesty, which allows all those asylum seekers who arrived in the country before the new law was adopted to stay.
In order to become law, the measure would have to overcome opponents who say it's just an amnesty for illegal immigrants.
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