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Members of "Ladies in White," who are relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents, gather for a meeting where a photograph of late Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo hangs on the wall in Havana, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Zapata, who was jailed since 2003 on charges including disrespecting...

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 photo, Nick du Toit, leader of a group of South African mercenaries involved in a 2004 coup attempt on Equatorial Guinea, attends a liberation ceremony at Black Beach Prison in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea after receiving a presidential pardon. British...

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FILE - In this in this Jan 8, 1973 file photo, E. Howard Hunt, left arrives with two unidentified men to the the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Watergate break-in planner Hunt sought a presidential pardon by saying he thought the infamous burglary had been authorized by Attorney...

Convicted Bali bomber Imam Samudera alias Abdul Aziz talks to his daughter during his last family visit in Batu prison, Nusa Kambangan Island, October 29, 2007. Three Indonesian militants on death row for their involvement in planning the Bali bombings five years ago said they were...

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Adnane Hajji (R), the spokesman last year of a protest movement in the phosphate mining area in southwest Tunisia, and his colleague Bechir Labidi pose at the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) on November 5, 2009 in Tunis. A group of Tunisian trade unionists jailed after riots last...

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Adnane Hajji (R), the spokesman last year of a protest movement in the phosphate mining area in southwest Tunisia, and his colleague Bechir Labidi stage a demonstration in front of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) on November 5, 2009 in Tunis. A group of Tunisian trade unionists...

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Kyle Unger, right, talks to media outside a Winnipeg courthouse, Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. A judge acquitted 38-year-old Kyle Unger, who spent 14 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing and sexually assaulting 16-year-old Brigitte Grenier at a rock concert southwest of...

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Roman Polanski 's agent Jeff Berg poses in his office in Los Angeles on September 28, 2009. The controversial 76-year-old director was arrested on September 26, 2009 after he arrived to receive a prize at the Zurich film festival. France and Poland are to ask the United States to drop...

A member of the Royal Canadian legion wearing a traditional headdress gives a salute as the hearse carrying the remains of Mi'kmaq icon Donald Marshall Jr. passes through the community of Membertou, Nova Scotia, August 10, 2009. Marshall was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1971 and...

The hearse carrying the remains of Mi'kmaq icon Donald Marshall Jr. leads an aboriginal honor march through to his burial site in Membertou, Nova Scotia, August 10, 2009. Marshall was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1971 and served 11 years in prison before he was acquitted.

A mourner places carries a Mi'kmaq first nations flag and places his hand on the side of the hearse which carries the remains of Donald Marshall Jr. to his burial site in the community of Membertou, Nova Scotia, August 10, 2009. Marshall was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1971 and...

The casket containing the remains Mi'kmaq icon Donald Marshall Jr. is carried out of Saint Anthony Daniel Church in Sydney, Nova Scotia, August 10, 2009. Marshall was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1971 and served 11 years in prison before being acquitted.

Newly released Palestinian prisoner Youssef Shaaban speaks to journalists upon his arrival at his home in the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut July 13, 2009. Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman issued a presidential pardon to release Shaaban who was convicted for shooting a...

Newly released Palestinian prisoner Youssef Shaaban (C) is welcomed by his mother (R) and supporters during a welcome ceremony to mark his release upon his arrival at the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut July 13, 2009. Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman issued a presidential...

Newly released Palestinian prisoner Youssef Shaaban kisses his mother upon arrival at the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut July 13, 2009. Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman issued a presidential pardon to release Shaaban who was convicted for shooting a Jordanian diplomat in...

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 and released Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009, from Freedom and Life for All North Koreans, U.S. missionary Robert Park, a 28-year-old Korean-American, who crossed the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China on Christmas Day, prays for North...

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FILE - In this June 3, 1992 file photo, E. Howard Hunt sits in his Miami, Fla. , home. Watergate break-in planner Hunt sought a presidential pardon by saying he thought the infamous burglary had been authorized by Attorney General John Mitchell, according to FBI documents released two...

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Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, talks with a colleague during the session in the Texas House of Representatives Thursday, May 14, 2009, in Austin, Texas. The Texas House has agreed with changes made in the Senate on a bill to boost payments to people who are wrongfully convicted and sent...

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Thaddeus Jimenez hugs his goddaughter Danielle on the night of his release from the Hill Correctional Center in Galesburg, IL on May 1, 2009. Thaddeus �T.J.� Jimenez, who was arrested in 1993 at age 13 and later wrongfully convicted for a murder he did not commit, was released from the...

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Thaddeus Jimenez (L) and attorneys Steven Drizin (R) and Stuart Chanen (BACK) walk out of Hill Correctional Center in Galesburg, IL on May 1, 2009. Thaddeus �T.J.� Jimenez, who was arrested in 1993 at age 13 and later wrongfully convicted for a murder he did not commit, was released...

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In this 1932 file photo, boxer Jack Johnson is shown working out in New York City at the age of 54. Sen. John McCain wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation's first black heavyweight boxing champion 100 years before Barack Obama became its first black president.