TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE, CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND AMNESTIES

This articles deals with the tension between criminal prosecution of grave breaches of human rights and amnesties in the field of transitional justice. In recent years, there have been a very important activity in the international community on the fight against impunity and the defense of victims' rights that seems to have changed the perception on amnesties favoring criminal prosecution in every case. Of couse, arguments to justify such criminal prosecution are convincing, but the intention of the author in this article is to explore some arguments that would provide good reasons to justify certain types of amnesties possibly considered in accordance to international law under the fulfillment of certain conditions and limitations.