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News Red Cross announces video teleconference system for US Afghan detainees
Red Cross announces video teleconference system for US Afghan detainees
Joshua Pantesco
January 14, 2008 09:21:00 am

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the US military have installed a video teleconferencing system at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to allow detainees held at the base to speak with loved ones,...

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News Iraq appeals court judge assassinated in Baghdad
Iraq appeals court judge assassinated in Baghdad
Joshua Pantesco
January 14, 2008 08:42:00 am

A judge on Iraq's federal court of appeal was assassinated by gunmen Monday morning on his way to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour. Amir Jawdat al-Naeib was also a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, the...

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News Top US military commander calls for closing Guantanamo
Top US military commander calls for closing Guantanamo
Joshua Pantesco
January 14, 2008 08:01:00 am

Admiral Mike Mullen , the Chairman of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff , said in an interview with reporters Sunday that the US facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba should be closed. Mullen,...

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News Liberia truth commission holds first public hearings on civil war
Liberia truth commission holds first public hearings on civil war
Joshua Pantesco
January 8, 2008 09:17:00 am

The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) , assembled to investigate possible war crimes that occurred during the Liberian civil war that ended in 2003, held its first public session on Tuesday. While the commission...

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News Marines hold court of inquiry into Afghanistan civilian shootings
Marines hold court of inquiry into Afghanistan civilian shootings
Joshua Pantesco
January 8, 2008 08:38:00 am

The US Marine Corps on Monday launched a court of inquiry proceeding to investigate whether charges should be brought in connection with a March 4, 2007 incident in which 30 US Marines...

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News Ban urges stronger UN investigative powers to combat fraud
Ban urges stronger UN investigative powers to combat fraud
Joshua Pantesco
January 8, 2008 08:02:00 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Monday that the UN "needs some strengthened investigative capacity" to combat fraud and increase transparency. During his first press conference of the year, Ban said that although the United Nations Office of...

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Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of lethal injection
Joshua Pantesco
January 7, 2008 12:36:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) on whether the three-drug lethal injection cocktail now used in over 30 states violates the Eighth...

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Israel military courts lack due process guarantees: rights group
Joshua Pantesco
January 7, 2008 08:58:00 am

The military court system administered by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) often fails to provide full due process rights to Palestinian defendants, according to a report released Sunday by an Israeli human rights...

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News Pakistan police block Sharif meeting with dismissed CJ as lawyers renew protests
Pakistan police block Sharif meeting with dismissed CJ as lawyers renew protests
Joshua Pantesco
December 6, 2007 11:21:00 am

Riot police and blockades prevented former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and hundreds of supporters from marching Thursday to the home of ousted Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry , who has been under virtual house...

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News UK government proposes 42-day detention without charge limit  for terror suspects
UK government proposes 42-day detention without charge limit for terror suspects
Joshua Pantesco
December 6, 2007 10:32:00 am

UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on Thursday proposed extending the current time limit for the detention of terrorist suspects before charges are filed to 42 days, up from the current limit of 28...

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Gandhi sentenced for sedition after civil disobedience campaign

On March 18, 1922, a court in British-ruled India sentenced Mohandas Gandhi to six years in prison for sedition in connection with his civil disobedience campaign for Indian home rule. Read Gandhi's famous statement to the trial court. Gandhi served two years of his sentence and was then released.

Supreme Court requires states to provide counsel for indigent defendants

On March 18, 1963, the US Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright held that the Constitution requires states to provide counsel for indigent criminal defendants. For a unanimous Court, Justice Hugo Black wrote, "Any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him." Counsel had been required for indigent federal defendants since 1938.

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