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News Lousiana prisoner freed after serving 41 years unconstitutional sentence
Lousiana prisoner freed after serving 41 years unconstitutional sentence
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
April 30, 2016 05:54:05 pm

Gary Tyler was released from Louisiana's notorious Angola prison on Saturday after serving 41 years of an unconstitutional life sentence for the death of a white high school student resulting from a racially charged confrontation. Tyler spent eight...

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News Puerto Rico government bank strikes deal with credit unions
Puerto Rico government bank strikes deal with credit unions
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
April 30, 2016 03:39:53 pm

The Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (GDB) announced its agreement with various state chartered credit unions in Puerto Rico whereby the maturity date of approximately $33 million of notes issued in a limited private...

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News Thailand jails 8 activists for sedition over Facebook posts
Thailand jails 8 activists for sedition over Facebook posts
Alexis Wheeler
April 30, 2016 11:58:05 am

Thai police confirmed Saturday that eight people have been charged with sedition and computer crimes in relation to Facebook posts in opposition of the government. The activists were detained on Wednesday for comments concerning Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha...

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News North Korea sentences US citizen to 10 year prison term for espionage
North Korea sentences US citizen to 10 year prison term for espionage
Alexis Wheeler
April 30, 2016 11:23:58 am

The Supreme Court of North Korea on Friday sentenced US citizen, Kim Dong-chul, to 10 years in prison and hard labor on charges of subversion and espionage . Kim, 62, was a resident of Virginia before moving to China...

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News 94-year-old former SS Sergeant apologizes to Nazi victims at trial in Germany
94-year-old former SS Sergeant apologizes to Nazi victims at trial in Germany
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
April 30, 2016 08:57:56 am

Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former Schutzstaffel (SS) guard in the Auschwitz death camp between 1942 and 1944, apologized to Nazi victims at his trial in Detmold, a small town in West Germany. Hanning, who is accused of being an accessory...

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News South Africa court reinstates 783 corruption charges against president
South Africa court reinstates 783 corruption charges against president
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
April 30, 2016 07:28:46 am

The North Gauteng High Court in South Africa on Friday ordered that the 2009 decision to discontinue the prosecution of President Jacob Zuma on 783 corruption charges be set aside, and that Zuma and his codefendants...

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News US report: Afghanistan hospital attack not a war crime
US report: Afghanistan hospital attack not a war crime
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 29, 2016 04:01:22 pm

US Central Command released its final report Friday on the October airstrike that hit a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, finding that the strike was not a war crime. The investigation concluded...

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News UN rights chief concerned over ‘monstrous disregard for civilian lives’ in Syria
UN rights chief concerned over ‘monstrous disregard for civilian lives’ in Syria
Kasey Tuttle
April 29, 2016 03:36:24 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday urged all parties to disengage from all-out war in Syria, expressing deep concern over a "monstrous disregard for civilian lives." Reports of civilian deaths...

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News Supreme Court refuses to block Texas voter ID law
Supreme Court refuses to block Texas voter ID law
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 29, 2016 02:29:08 pm

The US Supreme Court on Friday refused to block Texas from enforcing its controversial voter identification law. Plaintiffs had filed an application with the Supreme Court last month, asking the court to vacate a...

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News Supreme Court approves search warrant rule change
Supreme Court approves search warrant rule change
Kasey Tuttle
April 29, 2016 01:17:40 pm

The US Supreme Court approved a rule change Thursday that would permit US judges to issue search warrants granting access to computers in any jurisdiction. Chief Justice John Roberts sent the changes to the Federal Rules...

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India and Bangladesh sign friendship treaty

On March 19, 1972, India and Bangladesh signed a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Peace for twenty-five years. The treaty recognized the independence of Bangladesh by India at the conclusion of Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistan. The treaty expired in 1997 without renewal.

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US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren was born on March 19, 1891, in Los Angeles, California. He led the Court during a critical period of social change in the 1950s and 1960s and is perhaps best known for his Opinion in Brown v. Board of Education. Learn more about Earl Warren from the Supreme Court Historical Society, and hear him deliver the Landon Lecture at Kansas State University in 1970, shortly after his retirement, on the theme "The Alternative is Chaos."

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