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News Haditha Marine commander faces Article 32 hearing
Haditha Marine commander faces Article 32 hearing
Alexis Unkovic
August 30, 2007 05:08:00 pm

A preliminary hearing began Thursday at Camp Pendleton , California, in proceedings against US Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich , commander of the platoon implicated in the killing and suspected cover-up of the death of 24 Iraqi...

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News Federal court urged to block deportation of detainees to countries with torture record
Federal court urged to block deportation of detainees to countries with torture record
Alexis Unkovic
August 30, 2007 04:21:00 pm

The United States should not deport foreign detainees back to their home countries if there is reason to believe they will face torture , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers argued Thursday. Appearing before the...

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DOJ investigating Gonzales perjury allegations
Alexis Unkovic
August 30, 2007 03:11:00 pm

The US Department of Justice has begun an internal inquiry to determine whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have perjured himself in testimony before Congress, DOJ Inspector General Glenn A. Fine [official...

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News Russia police charge several suspects in journalist murder
Russia police charge several suspects in journalist murder
Alexis Unkovic
August 28, 2007 02:52:00 pm

Russian authorities have charged at least four of the 10 suspects arrested Monday in connection with last October's killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya , a defense lawyer told reporters Tuesday....

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News Federal appeals court orders re-sentencing of former Wal-Mart exec
Federal appeals court orders re-sentencing of former Wal-Mart exec
Alexis Unkovic
August 28, 2007 02:10:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Tuesday ordered former Wal-Mart vice chairman Tom Coughlin to face a new sentencing hearing, holding that his sentence was too lenient and improperly...

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Noriega can be extradited to France: US judge
Alexis Unkovic
August 28, 2007 01:22:00 pm

A US magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida issued a ruling Tuesday recommending that the US Department of State extradite former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France when he is released...

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Multiple deaths at Pakistan Chaudhry protest: report
Alexis Unkovic
May 12, 2007 10:19:00 am

At least eleven people have reportedly died and several dozen others have sustained injuries in Pakistan in conjunction with a Saturday rally in Karachi in support of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry [official website; JURIST...

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Alexis Unkovic
May 12, 2007 09:21:00 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday withdrew one of its proposals for tightened restrictions on contact between lawyers and their clients at Guantanamo Bay outlined in an...

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Poland court rules controversial decommunization law unconstitutional
Alexis Unkovic
May 12, 2007 08:56:00 am

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal Friday struck down portions of the country's so-called Lustration Law passed in October 2006 requiring over 700,000 Polish professionals - academics , journalists, lawyers, diplomats and...

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May 4, 2007 11:28:00 am

Chinese Human Rights Defenders Friday criticized the Chinese government for continuing to persecute and intimidate human rights defenders such as lawyers, academics and journalists in a report issued...

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