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News Argentina ex-president’s assets frozen
Argentina ex-president’s assets frozen
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
July 8, 2016 08:21:13 am

A federal judge in Buenos Aires froze the assets of former Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Wednesday. The action comes in association with the charge against de Kirchner for fraudulently manipulating the economy during her...

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News DOJ to investigate Baton Rouge police killing of black man
DOJ to investigate Baton Rouge police killing of black man
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
July 7, 2016 03:02:00 pm

The US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Louisiana on Wednesday announced an investigation into the recent police killing of a black man, Alton Sterling, which was recorded on video. Sterling was shot and killed...

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News US sanctions North Korea leader for human rights violations
US sanctions North Korea leader for human rights violations
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
July 7, 2016 09:28:33 am

The Obama administration imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Wednesday, taking the unusual step of placing the country's leader Kim Jong Un and 10 other officials on a blacklist for human rights abusers. The sanctions would bar...

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News UK entry into Iraq War not justified: report
UK entry into Iraq War not justified: report
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
July 7, 2016 08:35:46 am

The findings of the seven-year inquiry, led by Sir John Chilcot , into Britain's role in the invasion of Iraq were delivered on Wednesday in the form of a scathing verdict against former prime minister Tony...

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News UK lawyers to challenge EU referendum
UK lawyers to challenge EU referendum
Justin Cosgrove
July 6, 2016 11:06:02 am

Britain's leading public-interest law firm as well as several experience litigators are drafting a legal challenge to the EU referendum . The hope is to stop Britain's exit from the EU, or, at the very least, create a parliamentary...

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News FBI will not recommend Hillary Clinton be charged in e-mail scandal
FBI will not recommend Hillary Clinton be charged in e-mail scandal
Justin Cosgrove
July 6, 2016 10:04:21 am

FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that he is not recommending that the Department of Justice bring criminal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Comey stated that while Clinton was...

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News Amnesty: opposition forces committing war crimes in Syria
Amnesty: opposition forces committing war crimes in Syria
Brittany Felder
July 6, 2016 09:56:11 am

Armed opposition groups are committing war crimes in Syria, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday. While the report acknowledges that many violations of international human rights law have been committed by...

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News UN rights chief condemns terrorist attack in Baghdad
UN rights chief condemns terrorist attack in Baghdad
Brittany Felder
July 6, 2016 08:27:43 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned Sunday's suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. Stating that "the sheer unrestrained viciousness of these people defies belief," Zeid spoke strongly...

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News UN rights chief warns of deteriorating conditions in CAR
UN rights chief warns of deteriorating conditions in CAR
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
July 5, 2016 12:29:56 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein warned Monday of the deteriorating human rights situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) . "While 2016 began on a positive note, with the successful...

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News China sentences former president’s top aide to life for corruption
China sentences former president’s top aide to life for corruption
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
July 4, 2016 03:55:19 pm

The First Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin near Beijing jailed Ling Jihua, a top aide to former China president Hu Jintao , and sentenced him to life after finding him guilty of taking bribes, illegally obtaining state...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Watergate trial began

On October 4, 1974, the trial of Watergate conspirators HR Haldeman, John Erlichman, John Mitchell, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson began, with Judge John Sirica presiding. Review transcripts of the Watergate tapes played at the outset of their trial.

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