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News Rights group censures Indonesia for jailing peaceful protestors
Rights group censures Indonesia for jailing peaceful protestors
Joshua Pantesco
February 22, 2007 07:12:00 pm

Indonesia has convicted and jailed at least 18 people for advocating a sovereign government for the province of Papua , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Wednesday. The report states:Although political space...

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News Padilla unfit to stand trial due to post-traumatic stress: psychiatrist
Padilla unfit to stand trial due to post-traumatic stress: psychiatrist
Robert DeVries
February 22, 2007 06:14:00 pm

Alleged terrorist Jose Padilla is unfit to stand trial, forensic neuropsychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty testified at a court ordered competency hearing Thursday. Hegarty testified that she determined from 22 hours of interviews and tests...

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News Egypt blogger sentenced to prison for insulting Islam online
Egypt blogger sentenced to prison for insulting Islam online
Leslie Schulman
February 22, 2007 05:42:00 pm

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife in his blog . Nabil, a 22-year-old former law student, had...

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News China newspaper editor convicted of embezzlement has sentence reduced
China newspaper editor convicted of embezzlement has sentence reduced
Leslie Schulman
February 22, 2007 04:47:00 pm

Jailed Chinese newspaper ex-editor Yu Huafeng has had his eight-year sentence reduced by one year, according to Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Daily News on Thursday. Huafeng and his colleague Li...

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News Egypt cleric alleges torture after 2003 CIA rendition from Italy
Egypt cleric alleges torture after 2003 CIA rendition from Italy
Leslie Schulman
February 22, 2007 04:02:00 pm

Speaking publicly for the first time, Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr said Thursday that he was tortured by Egyptian officials during his four-year detention in Egypt following an alleged 2003 kidnapping ...

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News Enron shareholder class action suit to be tried in April despite certification appeal
Enron shareholder class action suit to be tried in April despite certification appeal
Joshua Pantesco
February 22, 2007 03:26:00 pm

The Enron shareholder derivative lawsuit will be tried in April as previously scheduled, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. US District Judge Melinda Harmon denied a motion filed by defendants Merrill Lynch and Co....

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News Philippines president pledges to investigate extra-judicial killings
Philippines president pledges to investigate extra-judicial killings
Joshua Pantesco
February 22, 2007 03:12:00 pm

The Philippines will investigate and eventually prosecute those responsible for extra-judicial killings, President Gloria Arroyo said Wednesday, one day after a visiting UN official released a report revealing a high number of such...

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News Sierra Leone war crimes indictee dies weeks before verdict
Sierra Leone war crimes indictee dies weeks before verdict
Joshua Pantesco
February 22, 2007 02:38:00 pm

Former Sierra Leone Defense Minister Sam Hinga Norman died of heart failure Thursday, several weeks before a verdict was due in his war crimes trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , the Court...

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News ‘Insufficient evidence’ to support Ramadan torture allegations: US Army
‘Insufficient evidence’ to support Ramadan torture allegations: US Army
Joshua Pantesco
February 22, 2007 02:01:00 pm

A spokesperson for the US Army Criminal Investigation Command said Wednesday that it had found "insufficient evidence" to support allegations by former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan that he was...

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News Top Canada judges say nomination changes threaten judicial independence
Top Canada judges say nomination changes threaten judicial independence
Joe Shaulis
February 22, 2007 12:53:00 pm

Canada's highest-ranking judges have criticized the Conservative government's changes to the regional panels that screen candidates for federal judgeships as a threat to judicial independence. The Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) , made up of the chief...

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UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.

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