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News India top court throws out corruption suit against PM
India top court throws out corruption suit against PM
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
January 12, 2017 08:19:30 am

India's Supreme Court threw out a corruption case on Wednesday against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The case against Modi was brought by Common Cause , a human rights organization, last November and alleged that Modi...

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News Federal judge dismisses 40-year lawsuit against DC for treatment of intellectually disabled
Federal judge dismisses 40-year lawsuit against DC for treatment of intellectually disabled
Meena Ansari
January 12, 2017 07:19:39 am

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday dismissed a four-decade class action lawsuit against Washington DC over the treatment of intellectually and developmentally disabled individuals housed at Forest...

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News Federal judge declines to delay execution over drug controversy
Federal judge declines to delay execution over drug controversy
Akira Tomlinson
January 11, 2017 03:15:51 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday declined to delay the execution of convicted killer Ricky Gray, which is scheduled to take place January 18. Gray's attorneys argued in December...

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News HRW: Saudi Arabia has arrested two human rights advocates this year
HRW: Saudi Arabia has arrested two human rights advocates this year
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
January 11, 2017 02:38:19 pm

Saudi Arabia has arrested two human rights advocates since the beginning of the year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. The reason Essam Koshak, 45, and Ahmed al-Musheikhis, 46, were arrested has not been released, and...

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News California appeals court declares police indictments by prosecutors unconstitutional
California appeals court declares police indictments by prosecutors unconstitutional
Autumn Callan
January 11, 2017 02:16:54 pm

A California appeals court ruled Tuesday that the pioneer law that requires prosecutors rather than secret grand juries to decide whether to indict police officers who use lethal force is unconstitutional. The Third District Court of Appeal [official...

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News Amnesty: unpunished war crimes in CAR call for rebuilding of justice system
Amnesty: unpunished war crimes in CAR call for rebuilding of justice system
Akira Tomlinson
January 11, 2017 01:33:55 pm

Perpetrators of war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) have not been prosecuted or investigated for their crimes, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report on Wednesday. According to AI, the country's justice...

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News Germany minister proposes overhaul of antiterror enforcement
Germany minister proposes overhaul of antiterror enforcement
Meena Ansari
January 11, 2017 01:02:59 pm

German Federal Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maiziere , released a plan Tuesday to overhaul the country's antiterror enforcement following the December lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market . Police have been seeking to improve...

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News North Dakota Senate rejects bill to update state laws to reflect same-sex marriage
North Dakota Senate rejects bill to update state laws to reflect same-sex marriage
Erik Slobe
January 11, 2017 12:56:34 pm

Tthe North Dakota Senate on Tuesday rejected a bill to update the definition of marriage and recognize same-sex marital relationships. The bill woud have updated the language in several state laws to...

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News UN rights expert to assess Mexico situation
UN rights expert to assess Mexico situation
Autumn Callan
January 11, 2017 12:15:53 pm

UN Special Rapporteur Michel Frost will visit Mexico for the first time to assess the safety of human rights defenders, according to a statement Wednesday. Frost's visit will take place from January 16 to 24, during which he...

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News Pakistan court sets execution date despite mental illness
Pakistan court sets execution date despite mental illness
Emelina Perez
January 11, 2017 12:11:58 pm

A court in Pakistan issued a death warrant for a schizophrenic prisoner, Khizar Hayat, sentenced to death in 2003 for shooting a police officer. The execution date was set just months after Pakistan's Supreme Court blocked the execution ...

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Trial of former-Yugoslavia leader Slobodan Milošević begins

On February 12, 2002, the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of Yugoslavia, began at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Milošević was indicted on sixty-six counts of war crimes allegedly perpetrated during the Balkan civil wars of the 1990s, including allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity. The trial ended without a verdict, when Milosevic died of a heart attack during the proceedings. Read ICTY documents from the trial of Slobodan Milošević.

Congress passed Fugitive Slave Law

On February 12, 1793, the US Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, prohibiting anyone from assisting a runaway slave.

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