Word: hasenfus
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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After a trial before a People's Tribunal composed of a lawyer, truck driver and laborer, Hasenfus was sentenced last month to 30 years for terrorism and other crimes. He was being held in the Tipitapa prison outside Managua when he was freed...
Ortega told reporters before Hasenfus was released that the pardon also would be a birthday gift for Hasenfus' son Adam. The Hasenfuses also have a daughter, Sarah, 12, and another son, Eugene...
...Ortega's request, the Nicaraguan National Assembly voted to pardon Hasenfus, a process that took only a few hours from the time it was first announced by the Nicaraguan government radio station...
Dodd, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee traveling in Central America, issued a statement Wednesday saying Hasenfus was released on humanitarian grounds...
...that he be pardoned, and there was no quid pro quo for his release," he said. "Mr. Hasenfus' situation was a small part of my conversation with Ortega, perhaps 15 minutes of a 4-and-a-half-hour conversation...