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News UN rights expert calls Israel Gaza attacks ‘war crimes’
UN rights expert calls Israel Gaza attacks ‘war crimes’
Howard Kline
January 19, 2008 02:17:00 pm

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories John Dugard said Friday that Israel's recent attack on a Hamas government office in Gaza which injured around 50 civilians and the killings of some 40 Palestinians...

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News Chile court sentences Pinochet police chief to 10-year prison term
Chile court sentences Pinochet police chief to 10-year prison term
Howard Kline
January 12, 2008 03:06:00 pm

A Chilean appeals court in Santiago Friday sentenced General Manuel Contreras , the secret police chief under former dictator Augusto Pinochet , to 10 years in prison. Contreras, the former head of Pinochet's...

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News Sri Lanka court limits government cordon-and-search security efforts
Sri Lanka court limits government cordon-and-search security efforts
Howard Kline
January 7, 2008 06:00:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Monday ordered the country's government to stop cordon-and-search security operations, in which security forces cut off access to a populated area before searching and arresting residents within. Human rights groups have...

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News Taiwan High Court upholds corruption acquittal of opposition leader
Taiwan High Court upholds corruption acquittal of opposition leader
Howard Kline
December 28, 2007 10:23:00 am

The Taiwan High Court on Friday upheld the acquittal of former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou on graft charges, clearing the way for Ma to run in Taiwan's presidential elections...

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News EPA turning over documents to Congress in California emissions waiver ruling probe
EPA turning over documents to Congress in California emissions waiver ruling probe
Howard Kline
December 28, 2007 09:47:00 am

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has indicated that the agency will comply with congressional requests to produce documents related to the EPA's decision to deny California's request for a waiver that would have allowed...

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News Russia top court upholds new Khodorkovsky investigation
Russia top court upholds new Khodorkovsky investigation
Howard Kline
December 26, 2007 10:44:00 am

The Russian Supreme Court has overruled a lower court decision that had held that a new investigation into the activities of Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky ...

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News Bangladesh ex-PM Hasina put on trial for extortion
Bangladesh ex-PM Hasina put on trial for extortion
Howard Kline
December 26, 2007 10:07:00 am

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went on trial on one of two alleged extortion charges in a Dhaka courtroom Wednesday, according to a court official cited by Reuters. Sheikh Selim, a former Minister of...

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News Iraq cabinet approves pardon of ‘innocent’ detainees: report
Iraq cabinet approves pardon of ‘innocent’ detainees: report
Howard Kline
December 26, 2007 09:29:00 am

The Iraqi cabinet passed a draft law on Wednesday that would grant a general pardon to "innocent" detainees held in Iraqi and US prisons in the country, according to an Iraqi official speaking to AFP Wednesday. Currently, there are...

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News Bush presses case for ‘modernizing’ FISA
Bush presses case for ‘modernizing’ FISA
Howard Kline
December 1, 2007 02:11:00 pm

President Bush urged Congress in his weekly radio address Saturday to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in time to replace the temporary Protect America Act , set...

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Indonesia prosecutors bring civil lawsuit against Tommy Suharto
Howard Kline
November 19, 2007 05:24:00 pm

Indonesian prosecutors Monday went to court in a civil lawsuit against Tommy Suharto , the youngest son of former President Haji Mohammed Suharto , in order to recover an alleged $55 million in losses...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Slave trade abolished in Britain

A British bill abolishing the slave trade became law on March 25, 1807.

Learn more about slavery and the slave trade in Britain.

Scottsboro Boys arrested

On March 25, 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama for allegedly raping two white women. Twelve days later, the young men were put on trial in the nearby town of Scottsboro. After numerous the proceedings culminated in two landmark decisions by the US Supreme Court, Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. Ultimately, the death sentences issued by the jury were overturned, but the defendants were nonetheless sent to prison. The trials of the Scottsboro Boys have come to symbolize the role of race in the criminal justice system of the Jim Crow South. Read a history of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys, as composed by Law Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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