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News Chinese Tiananmen Square protester released from jail
Chinese Tiananmen Square protester released from jail
Michael Sung
August 10, 2007 10:47:00 am

China has released a prisoner initially sentenced to death for burning debris during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests , the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights & Democracy reported Friday. Former construction worker Xi Haoliang,...

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News London transit bombing defendants plead not guilty
London transit bombing defendants plead not guilty
Michael Sung
August 10, 2007 10:01:00 am

Three men charged with conspiracy to cause explosions for their alleged involvement in the July 7, 2005 London transit bombings pleaded not guilty Friday. The defendants - Mohammed Shakil, Sadeer Saleem, and...

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News Padilla terror trial judge bars ‘defensive jihad’ defense
Padilla terror trial judge bars ‘defensive jihad’ defense
Michael Sung
August 10, 2007 09:27:00 am

US District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Thursday that jurors in the terror trial of Jose Padilla and co-defendants Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi will not be able to consider the...

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News UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay already cleared for release: Pentagon
UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay already cleared for release: Pentagon
Michael Sung
August 10, 2007 08:38:00 am

The US Department of Defense has cleared for release one of the Guantanamo Bay detainees who was a legal resident in the UK before his detention, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Sandy Hodgkinson...

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News Johnson & Johnson sues Red Cross for trademark infringement
Johnson & Johnson sues Red Cross for trademark infringement
Michael Sung
August 10, 2007 08:00:00 am

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the American Red Cross (ARC) alleging that the ARC has been improperly licensing the red cross symbol for commercial purposes. ARC President...

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News Rights group challenges new intelligence surveillance bill
Rights group challenges new intelligence surveillance bill
Jeannie Shawl
August 9, 2007 10:09:00 pm

The Center for Constitutional Rights asked a federal judge Thursday to strike down the Protect America Act 2007 as unconstitutional. The new law, signed by US President George W. Bush Sunday, gives...

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News Canada security service thought US would deport Arar for torture: uncensored report
Canada security service thought US would deport Arar for torture: uncensored report
Jeannie Shawl
August 9, 2007 08:57:00 pm

Canadian intelligence officials suspected that the United States would deport detained Canadian citizen Maher Arar to a country where he could have been subject to torture, according to previously censored information released Thursday by Canada's...

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News Son of Libyan leader admits torture of foreign AIDS medics
Son of Libyan leader admits torture of foreign AIDS medics
Jeannie Shawl
August 9, 2007 07:38:00 pm

Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, said Thursday that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were tortured during their eight years in Libyan custody on suspicion of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the...

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News Six more detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay
Six more detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay
Michael Sung
August 9, 2007 03:46:00 pm

Six more detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay , the US Defense Department said Thursday. According to the DOD announcement , five detainees were transferred to Afghanistan and one was transferred to Bahrain [Reuters report; BNA...

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News DOD says 14 ‘high-value’ Guantanamo detainees are ‘enemy combatants’
DOD says 14 ‘high-value’ Guantanamo detainees are ‘enemy combatants’
Michael Sung
August 9, 2007 02:50:00 pm

The US Department of Defense (DOD) said Thursday that 14 "high-value" detainees have been designated as enemy combatants based on the recommendations of Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) . The detainees, including the alleged...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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