...Arzoo Osanloo Abstract The essay reflects on the politics and politicization of pardons in post-conflict, post-revolutionary contexts. Drawing from immediate post-revolutionary moments in 1979 Iran and 2021 Afghanistan, Osanloo explores how pardons can be mobilized both to assert and legitimize...

...Alastair McClure The Queen’s Proclamation in 1858, her first gesture as the sovereign figurehead of India, offered amnesty to large numbers of those involved in the rebellion. From this point, the royal figure would be invoked at jubilee celebrations and royal durbars, offering royal pardon...

... pardoned by the Truth and Reconciliation constitutes facts and how they are used in the crea- Commission who should not have been pardoned and tion of our past. In present-day South Africa...

... not be fought by the small minority of the modern, Religion has ten characteristics: Patience (Did to some extent uprooted secularist elite. The VHP have the patience Pardon (Did VHP pardon struggle against communalism needs mobilization the excesses of the medieval Muslim zealots who...

... into the Ottoman territo- government’s inability. Therefore, the Ministry of ries.44 Despite these efforts, the cattle plague veba-( ­i Commerce and Public Works suggested granting a bakari) struck the region in 1904. Since their ani- pardon to those who were indebted...

... 43 and ordered their replacements from Muslim pardon to those who submit. sources in Trabzon, on the Black Sea, and from Recognizing mediation between indepen- 42 Crete and Rhodes...

...) Commute all death sen- Sections 298-B and 298-C PPC for the free expression of tences to life imprisonment. (2) Pardon all women prisoners except those convicted of murder. (3) Remit the sentences of all persons their faith. The law is broadly...

...Figure 6. “How many ministers, customs officials, bankers, and CEOs would you pardon without bringing them to justice?” Image reproduced with permission by Hamza Trayia. ...

... University Press 2019 amnesia memorials sexual violence apology Bangladesh 1971 war Balochistan “The day Pakistan builds a memorial in Lahore or Islamabad acknowledging how the Pakistani army killed and raped Bangladeshis during 1971—I can think of pardoning Pakistan.” —Dr. Meghna...

..., between Mrs. A.’s voice and her silence, which seems to reproach “structures that would seem to offer justice” (199), such as Ram's pardon of Ahalya for a crime she did not commit. The stillness also captures something of the reality of her own desire (and Ahalya's desire) scrutinized as both losing...

... moreover never accepted such mechanical axi- 1972, nor as BHP in 1985 was the party able to win oms and their inherent and barely concealed racism, a single seat; its share of the vote, too, hovered can perhaps be pardoned for gloating a bit about around one percent or less. the undoing...

.... To this point, Arzoo Osanloo's contribution distinguishes between mercy from below, a “horizontal and self-empowering . . . act of grace from a (legitimate) authority to curb a punishment for a wrong,” and the enduring injustice of pardons decreed by sovereign authorities. How is it that our proposed vision...

... conveyed by pious formulas 364 in Arabic. These critical observations would doubt- less leave Fayzi, if one may pardon the expres- sion, unfazed. He has ingeniously announced the legitimacy of both Indian thought...

... monarchic, conservative, and militaristic circles. A letter by intellectual Émile Zola, J'accuse! —published in a Paris newspaper in January 1898—framed the campaign for Dreyfus's release and gave birth to the image of the modern intellectual. After a few trials, Dreyfus, albeit convicted, was pardoned...

... to his native How to reconcile his Amazigh (Berber) origins region from 1936 to 1945. Once pardoned he with the fact that he played an essential role in continued his militant activities in Casablanca, shaping the Arab-Muslim orientation...

... pardon to repentant Janissaries. The author’s thor aims at a more principal feature of Moroc- opinion on the occupation of Syria by the reor- can political culture. He stresses that attempts ganized Egyptian army in 1831 can be taken as to apply the qanun of the Turks were bound to yet another...

... was pardoned, apparently by Atatürk himself shortly exiled and Maruf Bey was present but uncon- 181 before the latter’s death. scious. Such a removal seems to have forced a The content of the play, taken together critical distance on both the author and the with the context...

... This history of this labor and the fullest develop- expropriation assumes different ment of humanity. But I must aspects in different countries, beg his pardon. This is to do 41 me...

... as genocide” should be remembered. This was interpreted as a call to remember Hutu killed by the RPF during the genocide and afterward, which contradicts the “official” narrative about the genocide that only Tutsi were victims. 44 Although Mihigo was later released through presidential pardon in 2018, he...