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Syria’s president issued a decree granting amnesty and reducing sentences for several categories of crime committed prior to Thursday, his office and state media reported. No reason was given for the amnesty but it came on the anniversary of the 1970 coup that brought the father and predecessor of President Bashar Assad to power. Assad has issued similar amnesties since the country’s deadly conflict that has killed half a million people began in March 2011.

Tens of thousands of people protested across Spain on Sunday against acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez's plans to grant amnesty to Catalan separatists in exchange for support for another term in office. The government secured a deal with Catalan separatist party Junts on Thursday which includes passing a contentious law granting amnesty to those convicted over Catalonia's attempt to secede from Spain in 2017. The deal sent shockwaves around the country, with Sanchez's conservative opponents accusing him of putting the rule of law on the line for his own political gain.

Marikina City Mayor Marcelino "Marcy" Teodoro announced on Friday, April 14, that the city government will grant amnesty to delinquent real property and business taxpayers as part of the city government's bid to help them recover from the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and other prevailing social and economic issues in the country.

PASAY City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano encouraged all business enterprise and owners of real estate in the city to avail of a tax amnesty approved by the City Council under City Ordinance 6176. “Now that the country is slowly opening up its economic activities in a calibrated manner, this is the…

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