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News Russia top court overturns conviction of anti-corruption activist
Russia top court overturns conviction of anti-corruption activist
Elizabeth Lowman
November 16, 2016 01:18:01 pm

Russia's Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Alexei Navalny on Wednesday. Navalny runs the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which investigates the Russian government. In a verdict condemned by the EU and US, Navalny was convicted [BBC...

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News UN demands Turkey release international judge
UN demands Turkey release international judge
Elizabeth Lowman
November 10, 2016 01:32:30 pm

The president of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Theodor Meron , demanded the release of Turkish judge Aydin Sefa Akay in an address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. The General Assembly [official...

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News Voters in three states reaffirm death penalty
Voters in three states reaffirm death penalty
Elizabeth Lowman
November 10, 2016 08:28:28 am

The legal status of the death penalty was upheld in three state referendums Tuesday. Oklahoma citizens voted in favor of State Question No. 776, which will add an explicit protection of the death penalty to the state...

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Nuremberg war crimes trials began

On October 18, 1945, the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals began. Read US prosecutor Robert H. Jackson's opening statement.

Women declared "Persons" in Canada

On October 18, 1929, The Privy Council of the United Kingdom declared that women were considered "persons" under the laws of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had held in Edwards v. Canada that women were not considered "persons" under Canada's governing law, the British North America Act. The Privy Council overturned this ruling, declaring "that the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word 'persons' should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?"

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