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News Philippines Supreme Court rules president can appoint new chief justice
Philippines Supreme Court rules president can appoint new chief justice
Jay Carmella
March 17, 2010 11:31:00 am

The Supreme Court of the Philippines ruled Wednesday that the constitution does not prevent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from replacing retiring Chief Justice Reynato Puno prior to the May presidential...

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News ICTY to remain in operation beyond 2010: UN SG
ICTY to remain in operation beyond 2010: UN SG
Jay Carmella
March 17, 2010 09:17:00 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will continue to operate beyond its originally planned end date...

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News Myanmar junta announces new election law barring Suu Kyi from participating
Myanmar junta announces new election law barring Suu Kyi from participating
Jay Carmella
March 10, 2010 11:24:00 am

Myanmar's military junta announced the implementation of another election law on Wednesday that establishes procedures for the country's first election in 20 years. The Political Parties Registration Law prevents political prisoners from participating in the election and...

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News Iran court begins trial of prison officials charged with murdering detainees
Iran court begins trial of prison officials charged with murdering detainees
Jay Carmella
March 10, 2010 10:18:00 am

An Iranian court on Tuesday began the trial of 12 Iranian prison officials accused of torturing three prisoners to death, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) . The three victims, identified as Mohsen...

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News Spain court sentences former Basque separatist leader for promoting terrorism
Spain court sentences former Basque separatist leader for promoting terrorism
Jay Carmella
March 3, 2010 10:10:00 am

The Spanish National Court on Tuesday sentenced a former Basque separatist party leader to two years in prison for promoting terrorism. The court found that comments...

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Washington becomes second state to adopt single-drug lethal injection protocol
Jay Carmella
March 3, 2010 09:10:00 am

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna filed a motion with the state Supreme Court Tuesday announcing the adoption of a single-drug execution method. The state had previously used a three-drug cocktail to lethally inject those sentenced...

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Hungary parliament passes bill criminalizing Holocaust denial
Jay Carmella
February 24, 2010 10:05:00 am

The Hungarian Parliament passed a bill on Monday that prohibits denials of the Holocaust . The law, which passed 197-1 with 142 members abstaining, makes denying the Holocaust a criminal offense...

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News Ireland court dismisses case against only man charged in 1998 Omagh bombing
Ireland court dismisses case against only man charged in 1998 Omagh bombing
Jay Carmella
February 24, 2010 08:53:00 am

The Irish Special Criminal Court on Wednesday dismissed the case against the only man criminally convicted for a role in the 1998 Omagh bombing , finding that the evidence against...

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News Number of journalists killed worldwide reaches record high in 2009
Number of journalists killed worldwide reaches record high in 2009
Jay Carmella
February 17, 2010 10:21:00 am

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued its annual report on Tuesday confirming the work-related killings of more than 70 journalists worldwide during 2009, the highest in the 30-year history of the CPJ. Of...

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Ukraine PM files lawsuit challenging defeat in presidential election
Jay Carmella
February 17, 2010 09:03:00 am

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko filed a lawsuit on Tuesday with the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine claiming that last weekend's presidential election was corrupt. Tymoshenko alleges that widespread...

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Seventeen tried in Stalin purge

On January 23, 1937, seventeen of Joseph Stalin's political enemies went on trial in Moscow during the Soviet leader's Great Purge. This trial of seventeen represented the second of the three "Moscow Trials" in which prominent Soviet leaders were accused and convicted of conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code. The defendants were sentenced to execution or deportation to work camps.

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