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News Iraq unlawfully holding, torturing thousands of detainees: report
Iraq unlawfully holding, torturing thousands of detainees: report
Carrie Schimizzi
September 13, 2010 09:27:54 am

The Iraqi government is unlawfully detaining and torturing thousands of detainees, according to a Monday report from Amnesty International (AI) . The report, "New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detention in Iraq" estimates that more...

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Carrie Schimizzi
September 13, 2010 08:50:43 am

Constitutional amendments previously annulled by the Constitutional Court of Turkey were approved by a 58 percent popular vote Sunday, marking a major victory for the ruling Justice and...

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Iceland commission recommends charges against ex-PM over financial crisis
Erin Bock
September 12, 2010 03:37:45 pm

An Icelandic parliamentary commission on Saturday recommended that the country's former prime minister and three other former governmental ministers be tried for negligence for their roles in the country's 2008 financial crisis. The nine-member Special Investigation Committee (SIC) published...

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Dwyer Arce
September 12, 2010 02:44:13 pm

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that a second-hand software merchant may not invoke the first sale doctrine as a defense in...

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Serbia prosecutor charges 9 with Kosovo war crimes
Daniel Makosky
September 11, 2010 03:46:35 pm

Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor on Saturday announced charges against nine individuals for their suspected involvement in the 1998-1999 Kosovo war . The charges include murder, rape, looting, destruction...

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Daniel Makosky
September 11, 2010 02:30:26 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday ordered former Kosovo Albanian military leader Ramush Haradinaj to remain in custody while awaiting a new trial. The...

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Sarah Paulsworth
September 11, 2010 02:14:53 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday upheld a jury verdict clearing Chevron of wrongdoing in the 1998 deaths of two protesters occupying a Nigerian oil platform operated by...

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Zach Zagger
September 10, 2010 03:12:00 pm

Two Guinea election officials were convicted Friday of election fraud and sentenced to a year in jail for irregularities with June's presidential primary election. The convictions of Ben Sekou Sylla, president of the election commission, and his top aide,...

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Brian Jackson
September 10, 2010 01:14:15 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday invalidated a municipal ban on tattoo parlors by Hermosa Beach, California, calling it a violation of the First Amendment. The controversy initially arose when...

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France prosecutors seek to drop police charges over 2005 riot deaths
Matt Glenn
September 10, 2010 01:02:02 pm

French judges may drop charges against two police officers who chased three teen boys into a power substation where two of the teens died after being electrocuted, according to Friday reports . The two officers were charged in...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, US President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

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