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News Egypt lawyer challenges censorship law
Egypt lawyer challenges censorship law
Jacqueline Jones
December 14, 2015 02:14:51 pm

Egyptian lawyer Nasser Amin on Saturday challenged a law that allows for writers to be jailed for writings that violate Egyptian "morals." The challenge came during the trial of Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji, who could face a nearly USD...

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Egypt court sentences 2 in killing of detained lawyer
Jacqueline Jones
December 13, 2015 02:04:33 pm

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced national security officers Omar Mahmoud and Mohamed el-Anwar for beating lawyer Karim Hamdi to death in Cairo last February. The court's decision is part of a series of cases seeking to end police...

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Obama applauds new climate change agreement from Paris summit
Jacqueline Jones
December 13, 2015 12:36:54 pm

US President Barack Obama on Saturday applauded the new climate change agreement reached Friday at the Paris summit. The agreement was reached during the twenty-first annual conference of parties, known as COP21 . He stated...

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Obama signs bill revising ‘No Child Left Behind’
Jacqueline Jones
December 10, 2015 03:50:32 pm

US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law. The new measures hand much of the power over education success monitoring back to the states and allow them to make the...

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News EU opens infringement case against Hungary over asylum law
EU opens infringement case against Hungary over asylum law
Jacqueline Jones
December 10, 2015 03:23:47 pm

The European Commission on Thursday initiated an infringement action against Hungary's new asylum law and the country's response to the refugee situation. Hungary recently erected a fence along its border to keep migrants from crossing...

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UN rights chief urges protection for Venezuela opposition after assassination
Jacqueline Jones
November 29, 2015 01:58:12 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday called for the protection of political oppositions associated with the assassinated Venezuelan opposition leader, Luis Diaz. Diaz was shot while on stage with jailed opposition...

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Slovakia plans to challenge EU refugee distribution system
Jacqueline Jones
November 29, 2015 01:38:35 pm

Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico said Sunday that his country plans to file a lawsuit by December 18 challenging the EU's plan to distribute 120,000 refugees to each of its member states. Along with Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary and...

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Jacqueline Jones
November 24, 2015 08:58:37 am

A Russian Court on Monday banned the Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology. The court banned the church stating that it does not comply with federal laws on freedom of religion because 'Scientology' is a US...

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UN rights expert warns Cambodia’s political polarization reaching breaking point
Jacqueline Jones
November 24, 2015 07:09:25 am

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, warned Monday that the increasing polarization of the political parties in Cambodia is reaching a breaking point. Smith is concerned about the possible...

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Jacqueline Jones
November 22, 2015 02:27:41 pm

President Obama, on Sunday, ordered an assessment of whether intelligence reports from US Central Command (Centcom) were changed by supervisory military personnel before formal submission to present a more optimistic picture of the American military campaign against...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

James Earl Ray sentenced for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.. Ray died in 1998, still seeking a retrial of his case. On December 9th, 1999, a Memphis jury handed down a verdict agreeing with the King family that the 1968 assassination of the civil rights leader was a conspiracy rather than the act of a lone gunman.

Gandhi arrested for sedition

On March 10, 1922, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition for leading a campaign of mass civil disobedience against the British in India. He was then convicted and sentenced to six years in prison. After his release, Gandhi continued to build Indian unity and use civil disobedience and non-cooperation to oppose British rule in his country, culminating in the Salt March of 1930 and eventual Indian independence in 1947. Learn more about Mahatma Gandhi from the government of India.

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