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News Saudi Arabia releases three former Guantanamo detainees
Saudi Arabia releases three former Guantanamo detainees
Jaime Jansen
May 30, 2006 10:47:00 am

Saudi Arabia has freed three former Guantanamo Bay detainees who were repatriated there last year. According to an Interior Ministry source, the three "admitted to have been present in troubled areas without obtaining the consent of their...

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News Supreme Court limits First Amendment protection for government whistleblowers
Supreme Court limits First Amendment protection for government whistleblowers
Jeannie Shawl
May 30, 2006 10:11:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday held that First Amendment protections do not extend to government employees for comments made while performing their official duties, even when the employee is acting to expose alleged...

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News Europe court strikes down US-EU airline passenger records deal
Europe court strikes down US-EU airline passenger records deal
Jaime Jansen
May 30, 2006 09:53:00 am

The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that an agreement between the European Union and the US that compels European airlines to disclose information about passengers flying from...

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News Bush signs bill restricting protests at military funerals
Bush signs bill restricting protests at military funerals
Jaime Jansen
May 30, 2006 09:34:00 am

President Bush on Memorial Day signed into law the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act , legislation barring protests near military funerals originally passed in the US House of Representatives ...

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News Saddam complains of double standard after witness killed
Saddam complains of double standard after witness killed
Jaime Jansen
May 30, 2006 09:15:00 am

Saddam Hussein complained Tuesday that chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman of the Iraqi High Criminal Court is not giving the defense in Hussein's trial the same consideration the prosecution was given while...

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News Daewoo founder sentenced to 10 years for embezzlement, accounting fraud
Daewoo founder sentenced to 10 years for embezzlement, accounting fraud
Jaime Jansen
May 30, 2006 08:32:00 am

A court in South Korea on Tuesday sentenced Kim Woo-choong , founder of collapsed conglomerate Daewoo Group , to ten years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of over $10,000 while...

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News Belarus jails opposition campaigner for supporting protests
Belarus jails opposition campaigner for supporting protests
Jaime Jansen
May 30, 2006 08:05:00 am

A Belarus court on Monday sentenced Sergei Lyashkevich, an official who helped run the campaign of opposition presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich , to five months in jail for training and paying people to riot during the...

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News US reports 75 Guantanamo prisoners on revived hunger strike
US reports 75 Guantanamo prisoners on revived hunger strike
Cathy J. Potter
May 29, 2006 01:45:00 pm

The US military said Monday that the number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has increased from 3 to about 75. Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand described the strike as an effort to attract...

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News UN warns Somali militia  against committing war crimes as fighting escalates
UN warns Somali militia against committing war crimes as fighting escalates
Cathy J. Potter
May 29, 2006 11:49:00 am

A UN official Monday warned members of fundamentalist Islamic and secular warlord militias fighting for control of the Somali capital of Mogadishu “that any deliberate attempt to prevent wounded or civilians receiving assistance and protection during fighting in the...

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News Marine Joint Chiefs chair declines comment on Haditha killings probe
Marine Joint Chiefs chair declines comment on Haditha killings probe
Cathy J. Potter
May 29, 2006 11:26:00 am

US Marine Corps General Peter Pace , chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff , declined comment Monday on the Pentagon's investigation into the November 2005 killings of up to two dozen Iraqi civilians ...

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Slave trade abolished in Britain

A British bill abolishing the slave trade became law on March 25, 1807.

Learn more about slavery and the slave trade in Britain.

Scottsboro Boys arrested

On March 25, 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama for allegedly raping two white women. Twelve days later, the young men were put on trial in the nearby town of Scottsboro. After numerous the proceedings culminated in two landmark decisions by the US Supreme Court, Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. Ultimately, the death sentences issued by the jury were overturned, but the defendants were nonetheless sent to prison. The trials of the Scottsboro Boys have come to symbolize the role of race in the criminal justice system of the Jim Crow South. Read a history of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys, as composed by Law Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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