1.   The Interior Minister Enrique Krauss Rusque ruled out a blanket political amnesty, however, and stated that members of the group could be tried for past crimes.

2.   In early September three members of the OB awaiting trial abandoned their hunger strikes after de Klerk refused to grant them political amnesty.

3.   They testified in favor of political amnesty for the killers.

4.   Mexico has said that none of the men requested political amnesty.

5.   Raul Castro was jailed on the island with his brother, and released at the same time under a political amnesty by then-President Fulgencio Batista.

6.   Some prisoners at Caxias and other jails have been on hunger strike protesting a recent political amnesty awarded to members of a leftist terrorist group.

7.   The ambush failed, and all five remain in the jail despite pleas from President Nelson Mandela for them to be granted political amnesty.

8.   He added that the Cabinet was trying to resolve the issue of political amnesties in a way that would do justice to all parties and unite the country.

9.   He charged that two rebel leaders had been executed in violation of a treaty signed recently in Kazakhstan on political amnesty.

10.   He said the constitution empowered him to grant only political amnesty, which he said he already had done.