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News Canada commission finds issues with accountability, communication in Afghan detainee treatment
Canada commission finds issues with accountability, communication in Afghan detainee treatment
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 27, 2012 03:16:18 pm

The Canada Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC) on Wednesday announced that it would make recommendations to improve military police investigations based on its four-year investigation into allegations of misconduct in handling Afghan detainees. The MPCC...

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News DOJ asks federal judge to deny motion to dismiss Arizona police discrimination case
DOJ asks federal judge to deny motion to dismiss Arizona police discrimination case
Sung Un Kim
June 27, 2012 03:09:53 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the US District Court for the District of Arizona to reject the request by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to dismiss the lawsuit...

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News Pakistan high court orders new PM to reopen investigation of president
Pakistan high court orders new PM to reopen investigation of president
Sung Un Kim
June 27, 2012 02:40:38 pm

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday ordered the country's new prime minister to reopen the investigation against President Asif Ali Zardari . With the order, the court gave Raja Pervez Ashraf, the new...

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News Federal judge refuses to block Florida voter purging
Federal judge refuses to block Florida voter purging
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 27, 2012 02:36:44 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Wednesday denied a request by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue a temporary injunction barring Florida from continuing the...

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News Turkey to abolish controversial special courts: report
Turkey to abolish controversial special courts: report
Sung Un Kim
June 27, 2012 02:13:07 pm

The Turkish ruling party plans to abolish the special courts used in coup and terrorism trials, Reuters reported Wednesday. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) plans to present a reform package including...

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News Accused 9/11 conspirator asks UN to investigate torture allegations
Accused 9/11 conspirator asks UN to investigate torture allegations
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 27, 2012 02:02:57 pm

Lawyers for alleged 9/11 conspirator and Guantanamo Bay detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Tuesday revealed that they have asked a UN official to investigate allegations of torture. Mohammed reportedly confessed...

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ACLU files lawsuit against Puerto Rico police department
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 27, 2012 01:12:34 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) alleging that they violated...

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News Ethiopia court convicts 24 individuals under anti-terrorism law
Ethiopia court convicts 24 individuals under anti-terrorism law
Sung Un Kim
June 27, 2012 12:44:11 pm

The Ethiopian Federal High Court convicted 24 journalists, political opposition leaders and others under the country's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009 , Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday. The human rights group...

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News ACLU launches ‘torture database’ to search detention, interrogation documents
ACLU launches ‘torture database’ to search detention, interrogation documents
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 27, 2012 12:28:29 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday announced the launching of its Torture Database , a collection of more than 100,000 Bush-era documents recording "rendition, detention, and interrogation policies and practices." The database was...

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Rwanda assisting armed forces in DRC: report
Sung Un Kim
June 27, 2012 12:02:50 pm

The Rwandan government has helped to create armed groups including M23, which has been conducting a mutiny in North Kivu Province under the leadership of a particularly notorious group of human rights violators, and supplied them with weapons, armor...

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Reichstag Fire Decree issued in Germany

On February 28, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg issued the Presidential Decree for the Protection of People and State in response to the burning of the Reichstag (the German Parliament building) on the previous day. More commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, the law suspended many key civil liberties, such as free press, habeas corpus, and warrant requirements. Blaming Communists for the attack on the Reichstag, the Nazi party and newly-appointed Chancellor Adolf Hitler pressed the law through as a first step in establishing absolute control over Germany. On March 23, the German Parliament passed the Enabling Act, which empowered Adolf Hitler to become the dictator of Germany. Four months later on July 14, the Nazis solidified their control over Germany with the passage of the Law Against the Establishment of Parties eliminated all political parties in Germany other than the Nazi Party.

Congress ratified Manypenny Agreement on the Black Hills

On February 28, 1877, the US Congress ratified the Manypenny Agreement with the Lakota Sioux, under which the United States took control of 900,000 acres of the Black Hills. Read the ratification act, which includes the terms of the Agreement. The Lakota argue to this day that the agreement is illegal, was obtained by coercion associated with starvation, and that the Black Hills should be returned to them.

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