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UN rights expert urges Mali to strengthen judicial system
Bradley McAllister
March 2, 2014 12:00:48 pm

The UN independent expert on human rights in Mali, Suliman Baldo, expressed concern on Friday at the difficulties facing the the prosecution of war crimes in Mali and urged the international community to assist...

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News Pakistan court sentences 6 for murder of journalist
Pakistan court sentences 6 for murder of journalist
Bradley McAllister
March 2, 2014 11:19:22 am

The Pakistani High Court of Sindh Karachi sentenced six men on Saturday for the 2011 murder of prominent TV journalist Wali Khan Babar. The landmark ruling makes the first time in Pakistan's history that...

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News UK police arrest former Guantanamo detainee on Syria terrorism charges
UK police arrest former Guantanamo detainee on Syria terrorism charges
Bradley McAllister
February 26, 2014 01:06:20 pm

British police counter-terrorism forces announced on Tuesday the arrest of Moazzam Begg in his hometown of Birmingham, England, along with three other individuals on suspicion of terrorism offenses related to the war in Syria . Begg...

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News Turkish president signs law increasing government control over judiciary
Turkish president signs law increasing government control over judiciary
Bradley McAllister
February 26, 2014 12:22:33 pm

Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a law on Wednesday which increases government control over the appointment of judges and prosecutors in the country. The new law grants the Ministry of Justice greater control...

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News Rights group claims evidence of official discriminatory policies in Myanmar
Rights group claims evidence of official discriminatory policies in Myanmar
Bradley McAllister
February 25, 2014 12:39:50 pm

Fortify Rights , an independent human rights group based in Southeast Asia, issued a 79-page report on Tuesday claiming evidence the Myanmar government ordered policy discrimination against Rohingya Muslims . The report is based...

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Italy high court overturns convictions in CIA rendition program
Bradley McAllister
February 25, 2014 11:27:04 am

Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation , on Monday dismissed the convictions of five Italian agents related to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) abduction and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric and terror...

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UK appeals court upholds life sentences despite ECHR ruling
Bradley McAllister
February 18, 2014 12:23:55 pm

A panel of five judges for the UK Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that UK laws do allow for whole life prison sentences, despite a July European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling...

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Philippines high court upholds portions of cybercrime law
Bradley McAllister
February 18, 2014 11:14:44 am

The Philippines Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Act) , which penalizes libel online, is constitutional, despite a number of petitions challenging the law on the grounds that it unjustly limits citizens'...

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HRW: African nations should investigate the use of cluster bombs in South Sudan
Bradley McAllister
February 16, 2014 12:07:57 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the governments of South Sudan and Uganda on Saturday to investigate new evidence that cluster bombs were used in the South Sudan conflict. HRW cited new evidence of cluster bombs,...

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Morsi trial adjourned after brief court appearance
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February 16, 2014 11:01:41 am

Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi appeared in court in Cairo on Sunday in his trial for espionage and conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. Morsi continues to reject the allegations against him, and the trial...

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Slave trade abolished in Britain

A British bill abolishing the slave trade became law on March 25, 1807.

Learn more about slavery and the slave trade in Britain.

Scottsboro Boys arrested

On March 25, 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama for allegedly raping two white women. Twelve days later, the young men were put on trial in the nearby town of Scottsboro. After numerous the proceedings culminated in two landmark decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. Ultimately, the death sentences issued by the jury were overturned, but the defendants were nonetheless sent to prison.

The trials of the Scottsboro Boys have come to symbolize the role of race in the criminal justice system of the Jim Crow South. Read a history of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys and biographies of the major figures involved, as composed by Law Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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