The Status of Amnesty Provisions in Situations of Transition Under the African Charter

Posted on May 31, 2021
In Policy, Publications
by Jasmina Brankovic

This policy paper presents a review of the analysis of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on the legal validity of amnesty provisions under the African Charter. It examines how the obiter dictum of the Commission in Thomas Kwoyelo v. Uganda advances its jurisprudence on amnesty and the parameters the Commission has set for evaluating amnesty provisions.

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