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News Nepal enacts ordinance restricting press freedoms
Nepal enacts ordinance restricting press freedoms
Greg Sampson
October 11, 2005 04:37:00 pm

Nepal's King Guyanendra has approved a new ordinance tightening oversight of the country's media. Among other provisions, the newly-enacted bill authorizes imprisonment and increased fines of individuals who publish "banned items," prohibits publication of stories that inspire...

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News UK Lords debate religious hatred bill amid protests
UK Lords debate religious hatred bill amid protests
Greg Sampson
October 11, 2005 04:06:00 pm

The UK House of Lords debated the proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill Tuesday as a coalition of demonstrators protested outside parliament. The bill, proposed last year, is would ban incitement to...

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News Vukovar massacre trial opens at UN war crimes tribunal
Vukovar massacre trial opens at UN war crimes tribunal
Greg Sampson
October 11, 2005 02:38:00 pm

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) opened their case Tuesday in the trial against three former officers of the Yugoslavian army who allegedly permitted the massacre of more than 200...

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News US high court considers California death penalty case
US high court considers California death penalty case
Greg Sampson
October 11, 2005 02:26:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments on whether convicted murderer Ronald Sanders was wrongly sentenced to death by a California jury that improperly relied on invalid aggravating factors in deciding the...

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News Lawyer: wanted Croatian general will surrender if tried at home
Lawyer: wanted Croatian general will surrender if tried at home
Greg Sampson
October 4, 2005 04:59:00 pm

A defense lawyer for fugitive Gen. Ante Gotovina said in an interview Tuesday that his client would surrender to authorities if he is allowed to face trial in his home country of Croatia. Currently, Gotovina would face...

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Rwanda agrees to hand over Belgian genocide suspect
Greg Sampson
October 4, 2005 03:37:00 pm

The Belgian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Rwanda has agreed to hand over Guy Theunis, a Belgian Catholic priest accused of helping incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide , to the Belgian government. Last...

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Britain asks UN to support deportation of suspected militants
Greg Sampson
October 4, 2005 03:14:00 pm

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke urged the UN on Tuesday to support Britain's efforts to deport suspected militants to countries believed to engage in torture. Clarke's made the call in response to statements UN Special...

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News Khodorkovsky to file second appeal of fraud, tax evasion conviction
Khodorkovsky to file second appeal of fraud, tax evasion conviction
Greg Sampson
October 4, 2005 02:28:00 pm

Former head of Russia oil giant Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced Tuesday that he would file a second appeal of his conviction on fraud and tax evasion charges. Last month, a Moscow appeals...

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News Egyptian detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay
Egyptian detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay
Greg Sampson
October 1, 2005 04:47:00 pm

The US Department of Defense announced Saturday the release of one Egyptian detainee from the prison at Guantanamo Bay after a military Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined he was no longer...

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US releases second group of 500 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib
Greg Sampson
October 1, 2005 04:45:00 pm

The US military Saturday released a second group of 500 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib prison following an earlier release of more than 500 detainees Monday , and a release of another 1.000 ...

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FDR proposed 'court-packing' plan

On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, frustrated with the US Supreme Court's treatment of some of his economic reforms, proposed a plan to add judges to that and other federal courts whenever a sitting judge reached the age of seventy but declined to retire. Critics accused Roosevelt of indulging in autocracy and "court-packing." Review the text of Roosevelt's "fireside chat" on the proposal from March 9, 1937. Roosevelt eventually dropped the initiative but was nonetheless able to fill seven vacancies on the Court over the next four years, achieving his goal indirectly.

Panamanian dictator Noriega indicted

On February 5, 1988, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was indicted on charges of drug smuggling and money laundering. The following year, he was extradited to the United States and later sentenced to 30 years in US federal prison. In 1999, the French government requested that Noriega be extradited to France, where he had been convicted of money laundering. In that same year, the government of Panama also requested the extradition of Noriega, as a result of his 1995 conviction in absentia on murder charges.

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