41.   Pakistan and India agreed Sunday to exchange prisoners serving time for minor crimes as a gesture to improve relations, Interior Minister Shujaat Hussain said.

42.   Parliament regularly passes amnesties for those convicted of or charged with minor crimes to relieve overcrowding in prisons and pretrial detention centers.

43.   Among those falling under the amnesty are people who committed minor crimes, elderly convicts and those having tuberculosis.

44.   Both suspects have arrest records for minor crimes.

45.   Courts routinely order lashings and hand amputations for theft and minor crimes, and public executions for murder, rape and drug trafficking.

46.   East Timorese legislators are currently debating a proposed law that grants amnesty for militiamen convicted of minor crimes.

47.   He said they would argue either that she is innocent or that she committed only minor crimes.

48.   He said they would argue either that she is innocent or committed only minor crimes.

49.   Her office also can act as a civil or criminal court, letting Perez and an Indian judge order fines or community service for minor crimes.

50.   Human rights groups say that during the crackdown, people were executed for crimes as minor as petty theft.