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News HRW criticizes Armenia crackdown on peaceful protests
HRW criticizes Armenia crackdown on peaceful protests
Matthew Santiago
August 7, 2016 03:24:50 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday denounced the detention and abuse of peaceful protesters in Armenia. Amidst growing dissatisfaction with the Armenian government, protesters have recently held frequent demonstration in the capital city of Yerevan....

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News Thailand passes new Constitution via referendum
Thailand passes new Constitution via referendum
Taylor Isaac
August 7, 2016 12:31:28 pm

Thailand referendum voters on Sunday supported a draft of a new Constitution submitted by a military-appointed counsel, according to unofficial numbers . Although the turnout was low, a clear majority has determined the document will help restore stability in...

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News UN SG applauds EU for donation to anti-Boko Haram task force
UN SG applauds EU for donation to anti-Boko Haram task force
Brittany Felder
August 6, 2016 12:28:09 pm

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday applauded the European Union for donating 50 million euro (approximately $55,435,000 USD) to the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF). The MNJTF was created by Lake Chad...

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News Federal court dismisses lawsuit requesting third party presence at presidential debates
Federal court dismisses lawsuit requesting third party presence at presidential debates
Brittany Felder
August 6, 2016 12:16:44 pm

The US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by third party presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein against the Commission on Presidential Debates requesting...

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News UN rights experts urge China to end mistreatment of human rights defender
UN rights experts urge China to end mistreatment of human rights defender
Mark Casper
August 5, 2016 12:31:38 pm

A group of UN independent human rights experts expressed concern Thursday for the condition of Chinese human rights defender Yang Maodong, also known as Guo Feixiong, who has been detained by the Chinese government. Noting reports...

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Brazil Senate committee votes for Rousseff impeachment trial
Mark Casper
August 5, 2016 11:48:52 am

A Brazilian Senate committee on Thursday voted 14-5 to continue impeachment proceedings against suspended president Dilma Rousseff, who is charged with " to comply with tax and budget laws on the issues of additional credit decrees."...

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UN rights chief: mass executions in Iran deplorable
Alexis Wheeler
August 5, 2016 11:36:41 am

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday criticized Iran for the mass execution of 20 people this week, calling the action "deplorable." The prisoners were all convicted of terrorism-related offenses,...

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Rights experts: Venezuela media freedom eroding
Mark Casper
August 5, 2016 10:52:10 am

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right of freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye and the Inter-American (IACHR) Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression Edison Lanza expressed concern on Thursday over the deterioration...

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China sentences lawyer to 7 years in jail for subversion
Kasey Tuttle
August 5, 2016 10:35:26 am

Chinese human rights lawyer Zhou Shifeng was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for his role as director of Beijing's Fengrui Law Firm. Zhou was accused of opposing China's government and political system. The verdict stated that...

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Alexis Wheeler
August 5, 2016 10:34:23 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday denied a motion by North Carolina officials to stay an earlier order striking down the state's voter ID law. The law was overturned ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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