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Russia rights council condemns Khodorkovsky conviction

December 21, 2011 12:40:44 PM

The Russia Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights under President Dmitry Medvedev called for the prosecutor general to petition to annul the conviction of ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news...

September 20, 2011 11:23:06 AM

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that, although Russia did not misuse legal proceedings in order to destroy an oil company, it did violate the business's rights. The former Russian oil company,...

September 14, 2011 08:52:14 AM

The Supreme Court of Russia ruled Tuesday that former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were illegally detained for their...

August 2, 2011 02:01:05 PM

Russian investigators on Tuesday reopened a case against former lawyer and purported whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in November 2009. Magnitsky was arrested on allegations of tax fraud after implicating Russian police in...

July 27, 2011 01:50:08 PM

A court in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia on Wednesday denied parole for former Yukos oil executive Platon Lebedev . Lebedev and his former business partner Mikhail Khodorkovsky were convicted in December and...

July 7, 2011 02:02:11 PM

The Russia Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights urged amnesty for economic crimes in a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Tuesday that would include amnesty for the crimes of former Russian...

July 6, 2011 09:06:38 AM

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pre-trial was the result of criminal acts, differing from the previous explanation that had blamed prison doctors. Medvedev was presented...

June 14, 2011 11:19:09 AM

The Russian Investigative Committee said Tuesday there is no evidence of undue pressure by superiors on the judge that sentenced former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky . One of Khodorkovsky's main...

June 8, 2011 09:30:25 AM

Former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Tuesday reissued an appeal for release on parole that was returned to him due to insufficient documentation. Khodorkovsky has served half of a 13-year...

May 31, 2011 04:42:46 PM

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday found that former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky did not prove his prosecution for tax evasion and fraud were politically motivated...

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The Luzerne County Sheriff and deputies opened fire on a group of 400 striking miners in the town of Lattimer, Pennsylvania on September 10, 1897. Around 19 strikers were killed, and 39 were injured as a result. Luzerne County Sheriff James Martin and his deputies were later acquitted by a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania jury after claiming that the strikers advanced upon the police. Learn more about the Lattimer Massacre from the Zinn Education Project and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.

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