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News Vietnam deports American for distributing pro-democracy pamphlets
Vietnam deports American for distributing pro-democracy pamphlets
Devin Montgomery
May 18, 2008 01:55:00 pm

The Vietnamese government Saturday deported Nguyen Quoc Quan , a US citizen sentenced for planning to distribute pro-democracy pamphlets in the communist country. He received a six-month jail term Tuesday, but was credited for time he spent awaiting...

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News Bush election commission nominee withdraws, ends partisan stalemate
Bush election commission nominee withdraws, ends partisan stalemate
Devin Montgomery
May 17, 2008 04:03:00 pm

Hans von Spakovsky, nominated by President Bush to serve on the six-member US Federal Election Commission (FEC) , withdrew his name from consideration for the appointment Friday. The withdrawal ends a two-and-a-half-year stalemate between the administration and Senate...

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News Texas group sues Chertoff to block border fence construction
Texas group sues Chertoff to block border fence construction
Devin Montgomery
May 17, 2008 03:04:00 pm

The Texas Border Coalition , a group of Texan officials and business owners, filed a class action lawsuit Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to enjoin the Department of...

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News US to build new prison in Afghanistan
US to build new prison in Afghanistan
Devin Montgomery
May 17, 2008 01:37:00 pm

The US plans to build a new military detention facility in Afghanistan as a replacement for its current make-shift prison at Bagram Air Base , the New York Times reported ...

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News Schwarzenegger nixes California mass prisoner release: report
Schwarzenegger nixes California mass prisoner release: report
Devin Montgomery
May 13, 2008 12:25:00 pm

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has abandoned a 2007 plan to release approximately 22,000 "lower risk" prisoners who have less than 20 months of their sentences remaining, according to a Tuesday report in the Sacramento Bee. The proposal...

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News Colombia extradites ex-paramilitary leaders to face US drug charges
Colombia extradites ex-paramilitary leaders to face US drug charges
Devin Montgomery
May 13, 2008 11:21:00 am

Colombia Tuesday extradited 14 former militia leaders suspected of organizing violent massacres and drug smuggling operations to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. The guerrilla leaders had surrendered to Colombian authorities under a peace...

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News Japan arrests 5 for fraud in China WWII chemical weapons removal
Japan arrests 5 for fraud in China WWII chemical weapons removal
Devin Montgomery
May 13, 2008 10:04:00 am

Japanese authorities on Tuesday arrested five officials of Pacific Consultants International and its affiliate, Abandoned Chemical Weapons Disposal Corp. (ACWDC), for allegedly defrauding the Japanese government of $1.1 million in connection with a government program to remove...

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News Some Guantanamo detainees could pose threat if released: Gates
Some Guantanamo detainees could pose threat if released: Gates
Devin Montgomery
May 9, 2008 12:07:00 pm

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that a number of current Guantanamo Bay detainees would pose a new threat to the US if they were returned to their home countries. Of the 500...

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Nuclear powers say Iran threatening nuclear treaty goals
Devin Montgomery
May 9, 2008 10:33:00 am

The world's five major nuclear powers - Britain, China, France, Russia, and the US - cited Iran's uranium enrichment program as a major threat to the goals of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in...

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India PM backs special courts for corruption cases
Devin Montgomery
April 20, 2008 02:53:00 pm

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for the establishment of special courts to deal specifically with corruption charges, telling a convention of high-ranking justices and government ministers on Saturday that "apart from pendency and delayed justice,...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs. Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Óscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University. In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination of Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a US federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case. Romero was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2018.

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