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News Obama considering indefinite detention for some Guantanamo prisoners: report
Obama considering indefinite detention for some Guantanamo prisoners: report
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 27, 2009 06:11:00 pm

US President Barack Obama is considering issuing an executive order for the indefinite detention of some Guantanamo Bay detainees in order to facilitate the closure of the facility, two administration officials told...

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News Canada high court rules children under 16 have some say over medical treatment
Canada high court rules children under 16 have some say over medical treatment
Ximena Marinero
June 27, 2009 12:29:00 pm

The Canadian Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Friday that children under the age of 16 have the right to make decisions over their own medical treatment if they can demonstrate their decision-making ability, but upheld the constitutionality...

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News French Polynesia court dismisses nuclear compensation cases
French Polynesia court dismisses nuclear compensation cases
Ximena Marinero
June 27, 2009 09:58:00 am

The Labor Tribunal of Papeete in French Polynesia on Friday considered for the first time a demand brought directly against the French...

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News Former Serb republic leader transferred to Estonia to serve ICTY sentence
Former Serb republic leader transferred to Estonia to serve ICTY sentence
Christian Ehret
June 26, 2009 02:22:00 pm

Former Croatian Serb wartime leader Milan Martic was transferred to Estonia Friday to serve a 35-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws of war in Croatia. Martic was...

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News Rights group condemns closed Thailand royal defamation trial
Rights group condemns closed Thailand royal defamation trial
Andrew Morgan
June 26, 2009 02:18:00 pm

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday called for a public trial for a Thai political activist accused of insulting the royal family. Judge Prommat Toosang on Wednesday ordered that the trial of Darunee Charnchoengsilpakul...

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News Serbian officials charge 17 former Kosovo army members with war crimes
Serbian officials charge 17 former Kosovo army members with war crimes
Christian Ehret
June 26, 2009 01:57:00 pm

Serbian prosecutors charged 17 former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Friday for war crimes committed during the war in Kosovo . The charges include rape, murder, mutilation, and torture resulting from...

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News Brazil president signs controversial Amazon land privatization bill
Brazil president signs controversial Amazon land privatization bill
Andrew Morgan
June 26, 2009 01:34:00 pm

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday approved a controversial bill that would allow legal privatization of publicly held Amazon land. The measure is aimed at stabilizing...

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News Senate committee defense budget includes military commission reforms
Senate committee defense budget includes military commission reforms
Andrew Morgan
June 26, 2009 11:42:00 am

The US Senate Armed Services Committee announced Friday the approval an appropriations bill that would alter the rules of evidence used in military commission trials. The version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal...

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Federal bankruptcy judge approves GM financing motion
Christian Ehret
June 26, 2009 10:40:00 am

A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a motion to allow General Motors (GM) to borrow $33.3 billion in debtor in possession financing from the US and Canadian governments to finance a new...

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Impeached federal judge to resign at end of month
Andrew Morgan
June 26, 2009 09:53:00 am

Impeached federal judge Samuel Kent on Thursday resigned from his seat on the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas effective at the end of June. Kent's resignation comes a...

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Accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, put on trial in Israel

On February 16, 1987, accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, went on trial in Jerusalem, Israel. The prosecution claimed that Demjanjuk was a notorious prison guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka extermination camp during World War II. On this basis, Demjanjuk was convicted by the Israeli court of crimes against humanity. However, in August 1993, the conviction was overturned by Israel's Supreme Court on a finding of reasonable doubt. After the decision by the Supreme Court of Israel, Demjanjuk was returned to the United States, where he had been moved after World War II. On December 22, 2006, the US Board of Immigration Appeals ordered him deported to Ukraine on a finding that he had been a guard at other Nazi concentration camps.

American anarchist arrested for advocating birth control

On February 16, 1916, feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City for advocating birth control. Learn more about Emma Goldman and her defense of reproductive rights from the University of California, Berkeley.

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