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News Tribunal orders India to suspend trial of Italy marines
Tribunal orders India to suspend trial of Italy marines
Brittany Felder
August 24, 2015 09:50:36 am

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on Monday ordered India to suspend the trial of two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012. The tribunal claimed jurisdiction over...

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News Greece relocates migrants living in tent city
Greece relocates migrants living in tent city
Brittany Felder
August 18, 2015 02:13:39 pm

Migrants who set up a tent city in Athens, Greece have begun being relocated, said Greek authorities on Sunday. Many migrants coming from Afghanistan, Syria, and other countries migrated to the country to escape violence and with more than...

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News Egypt passes sweeping anti-terrorism legislation
Egypt passes sweeping anti-terrorism legislation
Brittany Felder
August 18, 2015 08:54:41 am

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday approved a 54-article counter-terrorism law which has been met with significant controversy as many believe it to be an infringement on freedom of the press. Many have said that the...

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News Former Virginia Governor: will appeal public corruption conviction
Former Virginia Governor: will appeal public corruption conviction
Brittany Felder
August 12, 2015 09:59:17 am

An attorney for former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell on Tuesday said he will appeal his public corruption convictions to the US Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ...

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Greece provisionally accepts bailout agreement
Brittany Felder
August 12, 2015 09:05:45 am

Greece agreed to the main terms of a draft bill for a bailout on Tuesday that would provide about $95 billion to the country. There are many provisions in the bill some describe as...

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Scotland government bans GM crops
Brittany Felder
August 11, 2015 02:59:35 pm

Scotland banned the growing of Genetically Modified (GM) crops in an effort to preserve its "clean, green status" announced Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead on Sunday. The government seeks to use the recent European Union...

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Burundi human rights activist latest injured in attacks
Brittany Felder
August 4, 2015 12:03:18 pm

A Burundi human rights activist, Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, was shot and severely wounded by motorcyclists while in his vehicle on Monday. Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is the head of the Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons...

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Former military contractor sentenced for stealing classified files
Brittany Felder
August 4, 2015 10:29:14 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Monday sentenced Christopher R. Glenn 120 months in jail and three years of supervised release for willful retention of classified national defense information...

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US, Turkey outline plan for Syria refugee ‘safe zone’
Brittany Felder
July 28, 2015 12:49:24 pm

The US State Department said Monday that the US and Turkey have agreed to establish a 'safe zone' for Syrian refugees fleeing the Islamic State (IS) by. The State Department's spokesperson, John...

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State Department upgrades Cuba, Malaysia in annual human trafficking report
Brittany Felder
July 28, 2015 11:27:55 am

The US State Department on Monday released released the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) . The report upgraded Malaysia and Cuba from the "Tier 3 Watch List" , as countries not...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, US President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

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