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News Losing Iranian presidential candidate condemns "illegal" efforts to defeat him
Losing Iranian presidential candidate condemns "illegal" efforts to defeat him
Christopher Tate
June 25, 2005 03:39:00 pm

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , the relatively-moderate cleric and former president of Iran who lost Friday's run-off election to hardline conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , contended Saturday that there had been...

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Proposed Russian constitutional amendment could give Putin third term
Christopher Tate
June 25, 2005 03:01:00 pm

A bill due to be considered in the Russian state Duma next week would allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to circumvent the two-term limit on presidents set by the Russian Constitution . The legislative amendment...

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News Allegations of election fraud arise ahead of runoff in Iranian presidential race
Allegations of election fraud arise ahead of runoff in Iranian presidential race
Christopher Tate
June 18, 2005 04:28:00 pm

The Iranian Judiciary detained a number of people on suspicion of election violations Saturday, a day after Iran's presidential election and six days before the top two candidates face each other in a runoff vote. President Bush...

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Reconciliation agreement signed in Sudan
Christopher Tate
June 18, 2005 04:10:00 pm

The Sudanese leadership in Khartoum signed an accord Saturday with the National Democratic Alliance , a group of 13 opposition parties. The agreement, hailed by Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir as...

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News Rights groups concerned that Guantanamo ex-detainees may be tortured
Rights groups concerned that Guantanamo ex-detainees may be tortured
Christopher Tate
June 18, 2005 03:43:00 pm

Prisoners released from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and returned to their home countries should be closely monitored to prevent their torture at the hands of their governments, according to a group of lawyers,...

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Australian immigration reform prompts detainees to attempt suicide, woundings
Christopher Tate
June 18, 2005 03:01:00 pm

Thirteen refugees being held in immigration detention centers in Australia inflicted wounds upon themselves Saturday, protesting recent reforms in Australia's immigration policies that stop short of freeing all "unauthorised arrivals" currently imprisoned in refugee camps. The Australian...

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Iowa to restore voting rights to ex-felons
Christopher Tate
June 18, 2005 03:00:00 pm

Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack announced Friday that he will sign an order on July 4 to restore voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences. The decision will end a system that had disqualified one out...

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DOJ data challenges Bush claims on post-9/11 terror convictions
Christopher Tate
June 11, 2005 04:44:00 pm

A Washington Post examination of US Department of Justice terror prosecutions to appear in the paper's Sunday edition shows very little progress in identifying and convicting terrorists since September 11, 2001. In contrast to President Bush's recent claims that...

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Iraqi security official says televised Saddam trial to start before constitution poll
Christopher Tate
June 11, 2005 04:04:00 pm

Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwafaq al-Rubie said Saturday that the trial of former President Saddam Hussein will take place before the currently-scheduled October 15 referendum on the new Iraqi constitution , and that the...

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Iraq Sunnis to call for UN arbitration on constitution
Christopher Tate
June 11, 2005 03:53:00 pm

A Iraqi Sunni leader concerned with low Sunni representation on the committee charged with drafting Iraq’s new constitution reiterated Saturday that Sunnis will suspend work on the document if the make-up of the committee is not...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Alberto Fujimori born

On July 28, 1938, Alberto Fujimori was born in Lima, Peru. Fujimori became President of Peru exactly 62 years later on July 28, 1990 and served until November 22, 2000, when he fled to Japan under a cloud of allegations involving corruption and human-rights violations. Fujimori was widely credited with restoring Peru's economy and national security during his time in office but was convicted in 2007 of ordering an illegal search and seizure and sentenced to 6 years in prison. In 2009, he was also convicted in a separate trial of human rights violations stemming from his war against domestic terrorists during his time in office. Learn more about Alberto Fujimori and his trial from the archives of the New York Times.

Fourteenth Amendment ratified

On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, granting citizenship to former slaves and protecting due process of law and equal protection of laws in the States, was ratified. Learn more about the history of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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