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News Rwanda genocide leader arrested in DRC
Rwanda genocide leader arrested in DRC
Julia Zebley
May 25, 2011 03:59:52 pm

Rwandan genocide suspect and former Hutu militia leader Bernard Munyagishari has been arrested in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) announced on Wednesday. Munyagishari was wanted on...

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News UN rights chief criticizes Australia indigenous, asylum policies
UN rights chief criticizes Australia indigenous, asylum policies
Julia Zebley
May 25, 2011 03:17:16 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday a rebuked Australia for its political, rather than human rights based approach to indigenous people and asylum-seekers. Although she criticized some of the nation's practices, she...

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News Federal judge upholds Ohio law limiting ‘abortion pill’
Federal judge upholds Ohio law limiting ‘abortion pill’
Julia Zebley
May 25, 2011 11:49:50 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Monday upheld an Ohio law that limits the use of the "abortion pill," overturning a 2006 injunction . The law...

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News Mozambique ex-minister embezzlement sentence reduced
Mozambique ex-minister embezzlement sentence reduced
Julia Zebley
May 25, 2011 11:27:04 am

Former Mozambique transportation minister Antonio Munguambe's sentence for embezzlement was reduced on Tuesday from 20 years in prison to four years and five months. The Supreme Court of Mozambique upheld the verdict [Journal News report,...

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News Rights groups criticize Iran detention of lawyers
Rights groups criticize Iran detention of lawyers
Julia Zebley
May 25, 2011 09:08:07 am

Amnesty International (AI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) decried on Monday Iran's persecutions of lawyers, suggesting it is a move to repress dissent. They called for the immediate release of Nasrin Sotoudeh [JURIST news...

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News Somali pirate pleads guilty in US court
Somali pirate pleads guilty in US court
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 04:24:37 pm

A Somali man pleaded guilty to charges of piracy and hostage taking on Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for overtaking a yacht containing four American citizens. The...

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News Iran implicated in 9/11 attacks by lawsuit
Iran implicated in 9/11 attacks by lawsuit
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 03:50:56 pm

A lawsuit by relatives of 9/11 victims has alleged that Iran knowingly aided al Qaeda in carrying out the attacks, according to affidavits filed Thursday. Included in...

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News Belarus delivers suspended sentences to 2 presidential candidates for inciting riots
Belarus delivers suspended sentences to 2 presidential candidates for inciting riots
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 02:18:42 pm

Belarus' Minsk City Court delivered suspended sentences on Friday to two former presidential candidates, Uladzimer Nyaklyaeu and Vital Rymasheuski, convicted of organizing protests following the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in December....

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News Taiwan court indicts general for China espionage
Taiwan court indicts general for China espionage
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 12:35:33 pm

A military court in Taiwan indicted a one-star general who confessed to spying for China on Friday. General Lo Hsien-che confessed to accepting bribes and divulging state secrets since March 2004. Due to his confession and relinquishment...

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News Japan agrees to sign international child abduction treaty
Japan agrees to sign international child abduction treaty
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 11:49:23 am

Japan announced Friday that they will be signing the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction at next week's G8 summit . Signatories of the Convention are required to return a child who...

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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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