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News Nepal rebel leaders call for interim constitution
Nepal rebel leaders call for interim constitution
Jamie Sterling
May 7, 2006 03:55:00 pm

Leaders of Nepal's Maoist rebel insurgency on Sunday called for an interim constitution to be enacted before a special assembly gathers to draft a new charter. The Maoists and a seven-party alliance of opposition political parties joined...

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News Serbia launches renewed effort to arrest Mladic after EU suspends talks
Serbia launches renewed effort to arrest Mladic after EU suspends talks
Jamie Sterling
May 7, 2006 03:26:00 pm

Serbian police launched a full scale search on Sunday for Bosnian war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic but were unable to arrest the former Bosnian Serb army commander wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal...

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News Bush says Guantanamo closure possible after Supreme Court rules on military trials
Bush says Guantanamo closure possible after Supreme Court rules on military trials
Jamie Sterling
May 7, 2006 03:02:00 pm

US President George W. Bush said Sunday that closing the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is a possibility in the future depending on the US Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [Duke Law case...

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News Israel police evict settlers from Palestinian home after Supreme Court order
Israel police evict settlers from Palestinian home after Supreme Court order
Jamie Sterling
May 7, 2006 02:18:00 pm

Israeli police on Sunday evicted a group of Jewish settlers squatting in a Palestinian house in the West Bank city of Hebron, a region where Jewish settlement is no longer allowed. Three settler families left peacefully, but police scuffled...

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News Russia prosecutors to appeal acquittal in murder of US journalist
Russia prosecutors to appeal acquittal in murder of US journalist
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2006 03:58:00 pm

Russian prosecutors said Saturday that they will appeal the acquittal of two Chechens accused of murdering American journalist Paul Klebnikov . Klebnikov, the editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, was in the process of...

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News Zimbabwe security forces stepping up use of torture: rights group
Zimbabwe security forces stepping up use of torture: rights group
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2006 03:21:00 pm

Zimbabwe security officials have increased the use of torture in dealing with opponents of the government of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe , according to a report released Saturday by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum [advocacy...

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News State lawmakers predict problems with REAL ID Act implementation
State lawmakers predict problems with REAL ID Act implementation
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2006 11:54:00 am

State lawmakers have expressed concern about possible problems expected to accompany the implementation of the REAL ID Act , fearing that they will not be able to comply with the law's requirements before a May 2008 deadline. The...

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News Amnesty International report to UN torture committee says US abuses widespread
Amnesty International report to UN torture committee says US abuses widespread
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2006 11:31:00 am

Amnesty International Wednesday released a report it has submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture detailing widespread torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners at US detention sites around the...

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News Revised Army interrogation manual held up by secrecy concerns
Revised Army interrogation manual held up by secrecy concerns
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2006 09:05:00 am

The release of a revised US Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation has been delayed while Defense Department officials continue to debate whether a portion of the manual should remain secret. Discussions have been underway...

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News Controversial judicial nominees may be filibustered: Reid
Controversial judicial nominees may be filibustered: Reid
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2006 08:41:00 am

US Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday that a filibuster is possible for two of President Bush's nominees to federal appeals courts, White House aide Brett Kavanaugh and federal judge...

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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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