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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Military jury finds Abu Ghraib dog handler guilty of detainee abuse
BREAKING NEWS ~ Military jury finds Abu Ghraib dog handler guilty of detainee abuse
Jaime Jansen
June 1, 2006 04:51:00 pm

AP is reporting that a military jury has found US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona guilty of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . Cardona was charged with maltreatment of prisoners, dereliction of duty and assault...

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German spy failed to report el-Masri rendition
Joshua Pantesco
June 1, 2006 03:10:00 pm

A spokesperson for German spy agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) on Thursday said that a low-ranking agent knew in January 2004 that German citizen Khalid el-Masri had been arrested in Macedonia and turned over...

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Saddam lawyers say witnesses ‘illegally’ detained
Joshua Pantesco
June 1, 2006 02:31:00 pm

Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial on Thursday accused US and Iraqi officials of illegally detaining four witnesses who testified Wednesday that chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Musawi had tried to bribe them to testify against Hussein...

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ICTY opens Milosevic health records
Joshua Pantesco
June 1, 2006 02:11:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday issued an order lifting the confidentiality of its health records for Slobodan Milosevic , the former Yugoslav leader accused of war crimes and crimes...

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Sweden passes law that could authorize custody of Taylor after war crimes trial
Joshua Pantesco
June 1, 2006 01:43:00 pm

The Swedish Riksdag has approved a law that could allow the country to incarcerate former Liberian President Charles Taylor if he is convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [JURIST...

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Number of Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike rises to 89
Jaime Jansen
June 1, 2006 01:12:00 pm

An additional 14 Guantanamo Bay detainees have gone on hunger strike, Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand said Thursday, bringing the total number of detainees on hunger strike to 89 after it was announced Monday that the number...

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Judge orders DOJ official to cooperate in tobacco settlement FOIA lawsuit
Joshua Pantesco
June 1, 2006 01:07:00 pm

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum to comply with discovery requests related to a lawsuit filed by legal watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) ...

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Russia ex-nuclear minister suffers heart attack while being held on fraud charges
Jaime Jansen
June 1, 2006 12:46:00 pm

Former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov suffered from a heart attack Thursday while in custody on fraud and abuse of office charges. Adamov's lawyers told Interfax news that although Adamov has received...

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Spain high court overturns 9/11 conspiracy verdict, upholds al Qaeda conviction
Joshua Pantesco
June 1, 2006 12:21:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Spain on Thursday overturned the Sept. 11 conspiracy conviction of Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas , but upheld his conviction as the leader of an al Qaeda cell in Spain....

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Kenya parliament passes sex-crimes legislation
Jaime Jansen
June 1, 2006 11:53:00 am

Kenya's National Assembly has unanimously approved a sex-crimes law after a month of heated debate over several controversial provisions, most of which were dropped in order to pass the bill . Legislators dropped provisions criminalizing marital rape and...

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Dred Scott decided

On March 6, 1857, the US Supreme Court announced its landmark decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, holding that black people—slaves as well as free—were not and could never become citizens of the United States and that the 1820 Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Learn more about the Dred Scott case from Washington University in St. Louis (the city where Dred Scott initially filed his suit for freedom and had his case first tried). Review a selection of contemporary newspaper editorials reacting to the decision.

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