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News European ambassadors call for Guantanamo Bay base closure
European ambassadors call for Guantanamo Bay base closure
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February 20, 2006 07:47:00 am

The French, German, and British ambassadors to the US on Sunday called for the United States to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, with French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte going so far as to call...

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News Thailand constitutional court to rule on hearing PM impeachment case
Thailand constitutional court to rule on hearing PM impeachment case
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February 14, 2006 08:36:00 am

The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Tuesday agreed to consider a petition to impeach Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on suspicion that he illegally held shares in the Shin Corporation , a telecommunications giant that...

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News New Orleans judges: funds shortfall may force mass release of indigent defendants
New Orleans judges: funds shortfall may force mass release of indigent defendants
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February 14, 2006 08:06:00 am

Just one month after New Orleans courts began preparations to resume trials , two New Orleans judges said that criminal courts may have to release as many as 4,000 indigent defendants, many of whom stand accused of felonies,...

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News Federal judge blocks transfer of American detainee to Iraqi custody
Federal judge blocks transfer of American detainee to Iraqi custody
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February 14, 2006 07:35:00 am

US District Judge Ricardo Urbina on Monday issued a preliminary injunction preventing the US military from turning over US citizen and suspected terrorist Shawqi Omar to Iraqi officials. Omar, who the...

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News Outgoing Palestinian assembly authorizes Abbas to appoint court overseeing Hamas
Outgoing Palestinian assembly authorizes Abbas to appoint court overseeing Hamas
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February 13, 2006 11:53:00 am

In its final session before dissolution, the lame-duck Palestinian Parliament Monday gave Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the authority to appoint a constitutional court empowered to cancel any law approved by the...

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News UN report alleges US torture at Guantanamo
UN report alleges US torture at Guantanamo
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February 13, 2006 08:53:00 am

Five United Nations rights experts have concluded that detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay have been subjected to physical and mental abuse amounting to torture in some cases, according...

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News Turkish journalists go on trial for state slander
Turkish journalists go on trial for state slander
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February 7, 2006 08:46:00 am

Five Turkish journalists went on trial Monday on charges of "insulting state judicial organs" and "trying to influence the judicial process." Prosecutors filed these charges in December for comments regarding the government's attempts to ban a conference ...

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News Second Los Angeles prison riot blamed on racial tensions
Second Los Angeles prison riot blamed on racial tensions
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February 7, 2006 08:20:00 am

Rival black and Hispanic gangs took part in another racially motivated brawl late Monday evening at a Los Angeles County jail dorm, in a repeat of a similar brawl last weekend which killed one inmate and injured...

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Carter says NSA domestic eavesdropping ‘illegal’
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February 7, 2006 07:22:00 am

Former US President Jimmy Carter said Monday that President Bush overstepped his constitutional powers by authorizing the NSA's domestic surveillance program . The former president was also critical of Monday's testimony ...

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Putin targeted on rights record at security conference
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February 6, 2006 08:10:00 am

American and European officials meeting in Munich Sunday at the annual Conference on Security Policy criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for backsliding on his protection of human rights. US Senator John McCain went...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs. Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Óscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University. In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination of Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a US federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case. Romero was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2018.

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