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News Freed Guantanamo detainees facing Afghanistan trial
Freed Guantanamo detainees facing Afghanistan trial
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 6, 2008 12:30:00 pm

Five Afghan detainees freed from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay last week have been taken to Pul-i-Charkhe prison outside the capital Kabul and will likely face trial, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday. The five were...

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News Myanmar opposition slams junta for proceeding with referendum after cyclone
Myanmar opposition slams junta for proceeding with referendum after cyclone
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 6, 2008 12:28:00 pm

Myanmar opposition group the National League for Democracy (NLD) Tuesday slammed the country's ruling junta for plans to go ahead with a scheduled May 10 referendum on a draft constitution despite a devastating weekend storm that...

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News ICTR begins genocide trial of former Rwanda government minister
ICTR begins genocide trial of former Rwanda government minister
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 6, 2008 12:17:00 pm

Former Rwandan Minister of the Interior Callixte Kalimanzira went to trial Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Kalimanzira, who served as interior minister during the 1994 genocide , is...

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News House panel votes to subpoena Cheney aide on DOJ interrogation memo
House panel votes to subpoena Cheney aide on DOJ interrogation memo
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 6, 2008 12:03:00 pm

The US House Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted to issue a subpoena to compel Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff David Addington to testify about a recently released Department of Justice Office of Legal...

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News UK cracking down on employers hiring illegal immigrants
UK cracking down on employers hiring illegal immigrants
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 6, 2008 10:34:00 am

The number of UK employers prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants has spiked since changes to British immigration laws were implemented in February, the BBC reported Monday. So far, 137 companies have been cited for employing illegal immigrants, 10 times...

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News Webby Awards announce Law category winners
Webby Awards announce Law category winners
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 6, 2008 09:59:00 am

The annual Webby Awards in Law and more than 100 other subject categories were announced in New York Tuesday as the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences honored excellence in interactive design, creativity, usability...

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News Abu Ghraib ex-detainee files ‘torture’ lawsuit against US military contractors
Abu Ghraib ex-detainee files ‘torture’ lawsuit against US military contractors
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 5, 2008 04:27:00 pm

A former Iraqi detainee filed a lawsuit against two private US military contractors Monday alleging that he was tortured tortured while held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003, according to AP. Emad al-Janabi...

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News HRW urges probe of Kosovo organ trafficking claims
HRW urges probe of Kosovo organ trafficking claims
Brett Murphy
May 5, 2008 02:39:00 pm

New information concerning charges that separatist Kosovo Liberation Army leaders were involved in trafficking organs taken from Serb prisoners during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo justifies a probe into the allegations, Human Rights Watch said...

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News Pakistan jurist quits committee drafting resolution to restore ousted judges
Pakistan jurist quits committee drafting resolution to restore ousted judges
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 5, 2008 02:25:00 pm

A key member of a five-person panel convened last week by Pakistan's coalition government to draft a parliamentary resolution to reinstate judges ousted by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has quit, according to local media reports Monday. Retired Justice Fakhruddin...

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News Indonesia police arrest alleged 2005 Bali bomb plotter
Indonesia police arrest alleged 2005 Bali bomb plotter
Brett Murphy
May 5, 2008 02:24:00 pm

Indonesian authorities have arrested an alleged member of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in connection with the 2005 Bali bombings that killed 20 people and injured over a hundred,...

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Catalonia declares independence from Spain

The Parliament of Catalonia declared independence from Spain in a failed bid for sovereignty on October 27, 2017. The declaration followed an independence referendum, boycotted by pro-union residents, that saw 92% of voters choose independence. The declaration was subsequently declared illegal by Spain's Supreme Court. Many Catalan independence figures such as then-Catalan President Carles Puigdemont were criminally charged as a result of their involvement in the independence attempt. Read the Catalan Declaration of Independence.

First of the Federalist Papers published

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