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News Egypt rights agency: 2,600 killed in 18 months following Morsi’s ouster
Egypt rights agency: 2,600 killed in 18 months following Morsi’s ouster
Dominic Yobbi
May 31, 2015 04:05:28 pm

Egypt's National Council for Human Rights reported on Sunday that at least 2,600 people have been killed by violence in the 18 months following the military ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Head...

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News Appeals court declines to get involved in case regarding Guantanamo video footage
Appeals court declines to get involved in case regarding Guantanamo video footage
Dominic Yobbi
May 31, 2015 03:35:40 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday decided not to get involved, for the time being, in a case regarding whether the public should have access to video footage...

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News Egypt authorities free American prisoner on hunger strike
Egypt authorities free American prisoner on hunger strike
Jacqueline Jones
May 31, 2015 12:48:43 pm

Egyptian authorities on Saturday freed Egyptian-American prisoner Mohammed Soltan, who had been sentenced to life in prison and had been on a hunger strike for over a year. As a precondition to Soltan's release, he had to renounce his...

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News Federal appeals court strikes down Idaho abortion laws
Federal appeals court strikes down Idaho abortion laws
Jacqueline Jones
May 31, 2015 12:18:44 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday struck down portions of two Idaho abortion laws. The Pain- Capable Unborn Child Protection Act prohibited abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The...

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News UN rights chief calls for investigation of CAR peacekeepers
UN rights chief calls for investigation of CAR peacekeepers
Ashley Hogan
May 31, 2015 09:06:28 am

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, on Saturday called on several states to investigate allegations that members of their peacekeeping forces sent to the Central African Republic (CAR) have committed...

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News EU judges sentence 11 Kosovo Albanians for war crimes
EU judges sentence 11 Kosovo Albanians for war crimes
Ashley Hogan
May 30, 2015 03:01:34 pm

Judges of the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo issued verdicts in the Drenica I and Drenica II cases on Wednesday and sentenced 11 Kosovo Albanian men to prison. The charges included the...

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News UN rights office: encryption crucial to free speech
UN rights office: encryption crucial to free speech
Taylor Gillan
May 30, 2015 10:56:00 am

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday released a report arguing that strong encryption is elemental to basic human rights. The report hails encryption and anonymity as tools that...

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News Croatia approves law to compensate war rape victims
Croatia approves law to compensate war rape victims
Taylor Gillan
May 30, 2015 10:22:27 am

Croatia's parliament on Friday passed a law that grants compensation to victims of rape during the country's war of independence from Yugoslavia more than 20 years ago. Despite its lateness, the move has been hailed as an important step...

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US drops Cuba from terrorism list
Jacqueline Jones
May 30, 2015 09:38:41 am

The US government on Friday formally removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as a positive step toward restoring Cuba-US diplomatic relations. US President Barack Obama said in April that he would...

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Nazi war crimes suspect dies at 93
Jacqueline Jones
May 30, 2015 08:22:58 am

Vladimir Katriuk, an elite Nazi storm trooper and the second most wanted man on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list died Thursday at the age of 93. Katriuk passed away after battling a long illness, according to his lawyer....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.

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