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News Europe rights court hears Ireland abortion law challenge
Europe rights court hears Ireland abortion law challenge
Ximena Marinero
December 10, 2009 11:51:00 am

The European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) held a hearing Wednesday in a case brought by three women alleging that current Irish abortion laws violate their rights under the European Convention...

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News New Jersey Senate postpones same-sex marriage vote
New Jersey Senate postpones same-sex marriage vote
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 10, 2009 10:51:00 am

Supporters of a New Jersey same-sex marriage bill decided Wednesday night to delay a State Senate vote scheduled for Thursday. The bill's sponsors, Democratic senators Raymond Lesniak and Loretta Weinberg, withdrew the bill [NYT...

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News China executes former securities trading executive for corruption
China executes former securities trading executive for corruption
Ximena Marinero
December 10, 2009 10:40:00 am

Chinese authorities on Tuesday executed a former general manager of a major Chinese securities trading corporation who was convicted of embezzling and misappropriating more than USD $14 million. Yang Yanming was convicted and sentenced to death in...

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News Guantanamo detainee transferred to Kuwait
Guantanamo detainee transferred to Kuwait
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 10, 2009 09:48:00 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee Fouad Al Rabiah has been transferred to the control of the Kuwaiti government. Al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti national, had...

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News Second Circuit blocks extradition of former Bosnia diplomat
Second Circuit blocks extradition of former Bosnia diplomat
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 10, 2009 08:51:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that a US citizen who served as Bosnian ambassador to the UN cannot be extradited to Sarajevo to face charges of embezzlement. The appeals...

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News Cambodia genocide court to allow individual prosecutions for government actions
Cambodia genocide court to allow individual prosecutions for government actions
Zach Zagger
December 9, 2009 03:00:00 pm

The co-investigating judges for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) released an order Wednesday that will allow the use of the controversial legal concept of joint criminal enterprise (JCE) to...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on arbitration act
Supreme Court hears arguments on arbitration act
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 9, 2009 01:33:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp. on whether imposing class arbitration on parties is...

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News UK judge rules Guantanamo detainee can access ‘torture’ documents
UK judge rules Guantanamo detainee can access ‘torture’ documents
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 9, 2009 11:43:00 am

A UK High Court judge ruled Tuesday that British Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer must have access to secret documents that may contain evidence of torture. Aamer, the only British citizen remaining at the US military...

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News Human rights continuing to deteriorate in Arab region: Cairo group report
Human rights continuing to deteriorate in Arab region: Cairo group report
Daniel Makosky
December 9, 2009 10:50:00 am

Human rights conditions in 12 Arab nations continued to deteriorate last year, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) . The publication, entitled "Bastion...

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News Federal judge reduces ‘Cuban Five’ spying sentences
Federal judge reduces ‘Cuban Five’ spying sentences
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 9, 2009 10:08:00 am

A judge on the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday reduced the sentences of two men convicted of spying for Cuba as part of the so-called "Cuban Five" . Judge...

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28 countries unite against Axis Powers

On January 2, 1942, twenty-eight countries formally agreed not to make peace with the Axis Powers separately. At the time, all twenty-eight were fighting against the Axis as Allies in World War II. The agreement was part of the Declaration by the United Nations, signed the previous day. In December of 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to this group of allies as the "United Nations."

US government agents arrested thousands in Palmer raids

On January 2, 1920, over 500 government agents acting on the direction of US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer carried out a massive counter-terror operation in 33 US cities, arresting between six and ten thousand aliens suspected of Communism, radicalism and anarchism. The "Palmer Raids" and the detentions and deportation proceedings that followed them were denounced by a number of prominent lawyers and judges who later established the American Civil Liberties Union. Read an excerpt from Attorney General Palmer's 1920 article, The Case Against the 'Reds' and learn more about the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of 1919-20.

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