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News Iraqi tribunal could violate international standards, rights group warns
Iraqi tribunal could violate international standards, rights group warns
Jaime Jansen
October 17, 2005 06:30:00 am

The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal ), the court established to try Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi officials, could violate international standards for fair trials, according to a...

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News UK officer faces court-martial for opposing Iraq war
UK officer faces court-martial for opposing Iraq war
Jaime Jansen
October 16, 2005 04:37:00 pm

A British Royal Air Force medical officer has become the first member of the UK military to face criminal charges for disobeying a lawful command because he refused to fight in Iraq, claiming the war there is...

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News Indonesia government tries to counter Muslim fears over new anti-terror laws
Indonesia government tries to counter Muslim fears over new anti-terror laws
Jaime Jansen
October 16, 2005 03:16:00 pm

Muslim leaders and rights groups in Indonesia fear that plans to strengthen Indonesian anti-terror laws in the wake a of a second round of Bali bombings earlier this month will return the country to...

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News UK Parliament bans 15 more terror organizations
UK Parliament bans 15 more terror organizations
Jaime Jansen
October 13, 2005 08:31:00 pm

Following a proposal Monday by UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke , Britain's Parliament on Thursday added 15 terror organizations with suspected links to al Qaeda to a list of 25 organizations already banned under...

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News Prosecutor subpoenas DeLay telephone records
Prosecutor subpoenas DeLay telephone records
Jaime Jansen
October 13, 2005 07:49:00 pm

Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle on Thursday subpoenaed telephone records from the home and political campaign office of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) Earle also subpoenaed the telephone records of DeLay’s daughter,...

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News South Africa repeals last apartheid law
South Africa repeals last apartheid law
Jaime Jansen
October 13, 2005 07:33:00 pm

South Africa on Thursday repealed the oppressive Black Administration Act , ending the last vestige of apartheid. The 1927 Act had provided a uniform system of administration and regulation for black people by empowering tribal chiefs and regulating...

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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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