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News Kuwait man sentenced to 10 years for posting insulting comments on Twitter
Kuwait man sentenced to 10 years for posting insulting comments on Twitter
Sung Un Kim
June 4, 2012 03:54:13 pm

A Kuwait court on Monday sentenced a man to ten years of imprisonment for posting insulting and defaming comments about the Prophet Muhammad and the Sunni Muslim rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on Twitter...

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News Bahrain government files lawsuit against opposition party
Bahrain government files lawsuit against opposition party
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 03:45:28 pm

The Justice Ministry of Bahrain on Sunday announced that it would file a lawsuit seeking to ban the Islamic party known as the Islamic Action Society, or Amal, a party composed of mostly Shiite Muslims who have been critical...

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News UN SG urges nations to increase counterterrorism efforts
UN SG urges nations to increase counterterrorism efforts
Sung Un Kim
June 4, 2012 03:05:21 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged countries on Sunday to increase their efforts to counter the prevalent threat of terrorism . At a second meeting of the advisory board of the UN Centre for Counter-Terrorism...

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News Azerbaijan releases youth activist
Azerbaijan releases youth activist
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 02:39:19 pm

The Supreme Court in Azerbaijan on Monday ordered that youth activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev be released nine months early on the condition that he remain in the country. Hajiyev, a conscientious objector (CO), was imprisoned last March after he failed...

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News Kazakhstan court sentences oil workers up to seven years for December unrest
Kazakhstan court sentences oil workers up to seven years for December unrest
Sung Un Kim
June 4, 2012 02:24:06 pm

A court in Kazakhstan sentenced 13 out of 37 defendants to between three and seven years of imprisonment for their participation in unrest last December that resulted in at least 15 deaths and hundreds of injuries. The...

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News Japan cult member arrested in connection with subway gas attack: report
Japan cult member arrested in connection with subway gas attack: report
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 02:03:07 pm

Japanese police have arrested one of the last fugitive members of Aum Shinrikyo suspected of involvement in a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, a Japanese newspaper reported on Monday. The attacks killed...

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News Denmark court sentences men to 12 years for terrorism plot
Denmark court sentences men to 12 years for terrorism plot
Sung Un Kim
June 4, 2012 01:46:13 pm

The Glostrup City Court on Monday sentenced four men to 12 years in prison for their attempt to kill people inside the office of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (JP) . Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm...

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News Supreme court rules on equal protection in taxation
Supreme court rules on equal protection in taxation
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 01:20:44 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 in Armour v. Indianapolis that a tax amnesty program did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment rights of those citizens who had already paid the...

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News Russia court orders new hearing in case against BP
Russia court orders new hearing in case against BP
Sung Un Kim
June 4, 2012 12:46:41 pm

The Federal Arbitration Court in Tyumen on Monday ordered a new hearing in a lower court in a lawsuit against British Petroleum (BP) . The suit was brought by minority shareholders in BP's Russian venture, TNK-BP, alleging that...

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Supreme Court rules secret service agents protected by qualified immunity
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 12:19:04 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Reichle v. Howards that two secret service agents are entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging retaliatory arrest. The petitioners are...

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Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the US in perpetuity

On February 23, 1903, Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. The United States subsequently used the lease to establish a Naval Base at Guantanamo. With the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, a military prison was built at Guantanamo to house prisoners of war and terrorism suspects captured by American forces, becoming the subject of much controversy over its detentions without trial.

NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born

W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born on February 23, 1868. Review the W.E.B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation with "communist front groups."

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