Cartoon depicting the first act of the Provisional Government in Turkestan was the decree of March 18, 1917 an amnesty for the executioners of the Kyrgyz uprising of 1916. Jailbirds of Kerensky was the term used during the Russian Revolution for people who were released from Russian jails on amnesty. A total of three amnesties were enacted by Russian Minister of Justice Alexander Kerensky in 1917.