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News Sierra Leone tribunal seeks additional funding from UN
Sierra Leone tribunal seeks additional funding from UN
Kate Heneroty
May 25, 2005 07:53:00 am

Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola , President of the Special Court of Sierra Leone , the tribunal created by the UN to hear cases of serious crimes committed during the West African country's civil war, warned ...

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News Hearing testimony on new FBI  Patriot Act powers [US Senate Intelligence Comm.]
Hearing testimony on new FBI Patriot Act powers [US Senate Intelligence Comm.]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 24, 2005 07:22:00 pm

Hearings on a Bill to Reauthorize Certain Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and for Other Purposes, US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, May 24, 2005 [including prepared testimony by the FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni asking for sweeping new...

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News Three UK bankers to be extradited to US for Enron scandal involvement
Three UK bankers to be extradited to US for Enron scandal involvement
Jamie Sterling
May 24, 2005 04:06:00 pm

British Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced Tuesday that three British men, all Greenwich Natwest bankers, will be extradited to the US to face trial for their involvment in the Enron scandal. Clarke is upholding a...

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News Rights group accuses US of allowing torture of detained citizens in Pakistan
Rights group accuses US of allowing torture of detained citizens in Pakistan
Jamie Sterling
May 24, 2005 03:53:00 pm

Human Rights Watch accused the US Tuesday of allowing two US citizens of Pakistani descent to be tortured and abused while being held in Pakistan as suspected al Qaeda members. Brothers Kashan and Zain...

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News Spain frees 9/11 suspect on bail
Spain frees 9/11 suspect on bail
Tom Henry
May 24, 2005 03:40:00 pm

The High Court in Spain on Tuesday freed on bail 9/11 suspect Ghasoub al Abrash Ghalyoun. A real estate developer in Spain, Ghalyoun is accused of taking amateur video while on vacation in the US and providing it to...

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News Khodorkovsky verdict-reading continues into seventh day
Khodorkovsky verdict-reading continues into seventh day
Jamie Sterling
May 24, 2005 03:25:00 pm

Three women Russian judges are nearly halfway through Mikhail Khodorkovsky's verdict document Tuesday after seven days of reading. The verdict-reading has presented evidence that will most likely result in a conviction for Khodorkovsky, the former...

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News Italian judge orders trial for Madrid terror suspect
Italian judge orders trial for Madrid terror suspect
Tom Henry
May 24, 2005 03:09:00 pm

A judge in Italy on Tuesday ordered that trained explosives expert Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed face trial in Milan on charges separate from the Madrid attack. Investigators have accused Ahmed, whose trial is expected to begin on October 8...

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News Major US banks suffer massive data theft
Major US banks suffer massive data theft
Tom Henry
May 24, 2005 02:21:00 pm

New Jersey police said Tuesday that they were only in the initial stages of an investigation that has so far revealed data theft from over 700,000 account holders from four major banks in the US. Ten arrests have been...

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News FBI asks Congress for expanded power to seize documents
FBI asks Congress for expanded power to seize documents
Tom Henry
May 24, 2005 01:46:00 pm

FBI lawyers speaking in front of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday asked for sweeping new powers to seize records from private citizens and businesses in terrorism investigations without first obtaining a judge's approval....

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News ICJ supporters encouraged by Medellin ruling
ICJ supporters encouraged by Medellin ruling
Tom Henry
May 24, 2005 01:16:00 pm

Supporters of the International Court of Justice and international law have been mildly encouraged by showings of at least mild deference to the ICJ by most members of the US Supreme Court Court in its closely watched Medellin ruling...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First American anti-slavery society organized

On April 14, 1775, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia helped organize the first American society for the abolition of slavery.

Learn more about the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

USSR agrees to leave Afghanistan

On April 14, 1988, the USSR signed the Geneva Accords, pledging to withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan. Soviet troops had been in the country since the USSR invaded in 1979 in order to support the communist government there. In addition to setting a timetable for Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Geneva Accords further defined the terms of relations between the government of Pakistan and the communist government of Afghanistan, providing for the return of prisoners and non-interference in the affairs of the other nation.

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