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News HRW urges probe of Kosovo organ trafficking claims
HRW urges probe of Kosovo organ trafficking claims
Brett Murphy
May 5, 2008 02:39:00 pm

New information concerning charges that separatist Kosovo Liberation Army leaders were involved in trafficking organs taken from Serb prisoners during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo justifies a probe into the allegations, Human Rights Watch said...

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News Indonesia police arrest alleged 2005 Bali bomb plotter
Indonesia police arrest alleged 2005 Bali bomb plotter
Brett Murphy
May 5, 2008 02:24:00 pm

Indonesian authorities have arrested an alleged member of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in connection with the 2005 Bali bombings that killed 20 people and injured over a hundred,...

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News Texas judge sets execution date for Mexican national at center of ICJ case
Texas judge sets execution date for Mexican national at center of ICJ case
Brett Murphy
May 5, 2008 02:04:00 pm

A Texas court Monday set the execution date for Mexican national and Texas prisoner Jose Ernesto Medellin for August 5, after the US Supreme Court ruled in March that President George W....

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News Federal judge promises to set dollar figure on US mismanagement of Indian trust
Federal judge promises to set dollar figure on US mismanagement of Indian trust
Brett Murphy
April 29, 2008 02:45:00 pm

US District Judge James Robertson said Monday in a court hearing that he would set a dollar figure on the US government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500,000 Native Americans in...

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News Pfizer resumes settlement talks with Nigeria state over drug trial lawsuit
Pfizer resumes settlement talks with Nigeria state over drug trial lawsuit
Brett Murphy
April 28, 2008 03:26:00 pm

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer resumed settlement negotiations with the Nigerian state of Kano for allegedly illegal clinical trials conducted by the drug company, Kano state Justice Commissioner Aliyu Umar said Monday. Pfizer is accused of administering 200...

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News Hamdan plans boycott of Guantanamo military commission trial
Hamdan plans boycott of Guantanamo military commission trial
Brett Murphy
April 28, 2008 03:02:00 pm

Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan said Monday that he will join fellow detainees in a boycott of his upcoming military commission trial. Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden who has...

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News Zimbabwe police arrest opposition supporters after strike staged
Zimbabwe police arrest opposition supporters after strike staged
Brett Murphy
April 16, 2008 10:19:00 am

Zimbabwean police have arrested more than 50 members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after the party called for a strike to protest the nondisclosure of the results of the March 29 presidential elections [JURIST...

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News Peru high court upholds Fujimori abuse of authority prison sentence
Peru high court upholds Fujimori abuse of authority prison sentence
Brett Murphy
April 16, 2008 10:07:00 am

The Supreme Court of Peru on Tuesday upheld a prison sentence for former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori , who was convicted late last year on charges of abuse of authority for ordering a...

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News US prosecutors defend al-Marri ‘enemy combatant’ detention conditions as humane
US prosecutors defend al-Marri ‘enemy combatant’ detention conditions as humane
Brett Murphy
April 16, 2008 09:38:00 am

US federal prosecutors defended the prison treatment of accused enemy combatant Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in documents filed Tuesday with the US Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit. Prosecutors say that although...

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News Iran appeals court upholds sentences of students charged with insulting Islam
Iran appeals court upholds sentences of students charged with insulting Islam
Brett Murphy
April 16, 2008 09:05:00 am

An Iranian appeals court Tuesday upheld the sentences of three Iranian students on charges of insulting Islam. Majid Tavakoli, Ahmed Ghassaban, and Ehsan Mansouri were arrested last year for allegedly publishing anti-Islamic material in multiple newspapers. The...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Copyright infringement made US crime

On March 4, 1909, the Copyright Act of 1909 became law, making infringement of a copyright a federal crime for the first time. Review a brief history of copyright in the United States.

First woman appointed to the Canada Supreme Court

On March 4, 1982, Bertha Wilson became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

City of Toronto incorporated

On March 4, 1834, the town of York in the British colony of Canada was incorporated as the City of Toronto. Learn the history of Toronto from the city's official website.

ICC issues warrant for Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir

The International Criminal Court issued its first arrest warrant for a sitting head of state when it sought Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir on March 4, 2009 for allegedly directing attacks against civilians and being an indirect participant in murder, rape, and torture during the conflict in Darfur. Al-Bashir was removed from power in 2019. The former president remains in a Sudanese prison. Learn more about the case against al-Bashir and read the arrest warrant.

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