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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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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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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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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South Africa on Thursday repealed the oppressive Black Administration Act , ending the last vestige of apartheid.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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THIS DAY @ LAW

Western Allies approve new Germany constitution

On May 12, 1949, the Western allied powers, the United Kingdom, United States, and France, approved the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) as the legal foundation for the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The document served as the constitution of West Germany during the Cold War and remains the governing law for the unified Germany today. Learn more about the legal framework of the German government from the Bundestag (Parliament of Germany).

Justice Harry A. Blackmun confirmed

On May 12, 1970, the Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Harry A. Blackmun to the United States Supreme Court. Justice Blackmun died in 1999, and was remembered on JURIST by several of his former law clerks. The Harry A. Blackmun Papers were released in 2004 by the Library of Congress.

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