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News Israel PM appoints former Supreme Court judge to head flotilla raid probe
Israel PM appoints former Supreme Court judge to head flotilla raid probe
Daniel Richey
June 13, 2010 04:24:43 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced the composition of an internal probe into the May 31 Israeli raid on several Turkish ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip . To...

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News Mauritius to try accused Somali pirates
Mauritius to try accused Somali pirates
Daniel Richey
June 13, 2010 02:37:30 pm

Mauritian Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam announced Saturday that his country will begin to try and imprison suspected pirates . Ramgoolam, who announced the policy after meeting with EU security officials, said that Mauritius had to...

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News UK appeals court rejects use of secret evidence in detainee torture case
UK appeals court rejects use of secret evidence in detainee torture case
Daniel Richey
May 4, 2010 12:45:09 pm

The England and Wales Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that state intelligence agencies cannot use secret evidence in their defense against abuse accusations by Binyam Mohamed and several other UK...

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News Kyrgyzstan interim government charges ousted president with murder
Kyrgyzstan interim government charges ousted president with murder
Daniel Richey
April 27, 2010 12:07:00 pm

Officials in Kyrgyzstan's interim government said Tuesday that ousted former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been charged with mass murder, for which he will be tried in absentia. The charges stem from an April 7...

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News Kyrgyzstan interim government charges ousted president with murder
Kyrgyzstan interim government charges ousted president with murder
Daniel Richey
April 27, 2010 12:02:26 pm

Officials in Kyrgyzstan's interim government said Tuesday that ousted former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been charged with mass murder, for which he will be tried in absentia. The charges stem from an April 7...

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News Thailand pro-government ‘yellow shirts’ call for martial law to end protests
Thailand pro-government ‘yellow shirts’ call for martial law to end protests
Daniel Richey
April 26, 2010 09:46:47 am

Thailand's pro-government People's Alliance for Democracy Network , known as "yellow shirts," called Monday for a declaration of martial law to quell the anti-government movement spearheaded by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship...

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News Thailand pro-government ‘yellow shirts’ call for martial law to end protests
Thailand pro-government ‘yellow shirts’ call for martial law to end protests
Daniel Richey
April 26, 2010 08:52:00 am

Thailand's pro-government People's Alliance for Democracy Network , known as "yellow shirts," called Monday for a declaration of martial law to quell the anti-government movement spearheaded by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship...

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News UK government to compensate pilot wrongly detained after 9/11
UK government to compensate pilot wrongly detained after 9/11
Daniel Richey
April 23, 2010 03:48:00 pm

Officials from the UK Ministry of Justice announced Friday that the government will award compensation to Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian-born UK man wrongfully detained in the wake of the 9/11 attacks . Raissi was jailed...

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News Iran court sentences 3 progressive activists to prison
Iran court sentences 3 progressive activists to prison
Daniel Richey
April 19, 2010 09:21:00 am

A Tehran Revolutionary Court on Monday sentenced three prominent progressive activists to six years in prison in connection with protests following the controversial re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [BBC profile; JURIST news...

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News UN rights chief denounces Hamas executions
UN rights chief denounces Hamas executions
Daniel Richey
April 16, 2010 01:29:00 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday decried the recent decision by Hamas to execute several of its prisoners. On Thursday, the de-facto government of Palestinian Gaza...

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Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia

On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.

First US wartime conscription law took effect

On April 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, the first wartime conscription law passed in the United States went into effect. It included a clause allowing a person to pay $300 to avoid military service, a controversial "rich man's" exception that precipitated the July 1863 New York City Draft Riots. The riots, the worst in US history to that point, killed as many as 100 people and had to be quelled by troops, some of whom had recently fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. Learn more about the Draft Riots.

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