Definition of "impunity" []

• Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm. (noun)

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• "And the term "impunity" has been removed in every instance."
• "The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has been very vocal about the massacre and critical of what it calls impunity in the killings of journalists in the Philippines."
• "The attack prompted journalists to protest against what they call the impunity that allows such attacks to take place."