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News Lobbyists oppose plan to reform ethics rules
Lobbyists oppose plan to reform ethics rules
Krystal MacIntyre
January 25, 2006 03:32:00 pm

In a US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on lobbying reform Wednesday, trade group lobbyists questioned the need for the new ethics reform proposal that would place stricter regulations...

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News US Supreme Court agrees to hear Florida death row appeal
US Supreme Court agrees to hear Florida death row appeal
Krystal MacIntyre
January 25, 2006 02:59:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear the appeal of a Florida death row inmate who is challenging the lethal injection method that is to be used in his execution. Justice Kennedy...

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News African Union rights arm slams Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Sudan for violations
African Union rights arm slams Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Sudan for violations
Krystal MacIntyre
January 25, 2006 02:26:00 pm

The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights , the human rights arm of the African Union (AU) , has cited Sudan, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo for rights violations in a...

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News ACLU challenges Patriot Act provision barring Muslim scholar from US
ACLU challenges Patriot Act provision barring Muslim scholar from US
Krystal MacIntyre
January 25, 2006 01:48:00 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the US government for denying Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan entry into the United States under the ideological exclusion provision...

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News Europe rights watchdog condemns Chechnya violations
Europe rights watchdog condemns Chechnya violations
Krystal MacIntyre
January 25, 2006 01:09:00 pm

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning the human rights situation in Chechnya , citing numerous cases of murder, disappearances, torture, and other human rights abuses [JURIST...

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News Uganda politicians charged with criminal libel over bribery allegations in Besigye trial
Uganda politicians charged with criminal libel over bribery allegations in Besigye trial
Krystal MacIntyre
January 24, 2006 12:20:00 pm

The wife of Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye , Winnie Byanyima, and Forum for Democratic Change official Jack Sabiti were charged Tuesday with criminal libel and supplying false information for alleging that judges involved in...

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News South Korean lobbyist indicted for Oil-for-Food fraud
South Korean lobbyist indicted for Oil-for-Food fraud
Krystal MacIntyre
January 24, 2006 11:35:00 am

Tongsun Park , a South Korean lobbyist, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan on charges stemming from the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program . Park faces charges of money laundering and...

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News Yemen to try al Qaeda suspects released from Guantanamo Bay
Yemen to try al Qaeda suspects released from Guantanamo Bay
Krystal MacIntyre
January 24, 2006 11:11:00 am

Six Yemen citizens, including four who have been released from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will face stand trial in a special terrorism court on accusations of belonging to al Qaeda, according...

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News Louisiana legislature panel approves New Orleans election plan under legal pressure
Louisiana legislature panel approves New Orleans election plan under legal pressure
Krystal MacIntyre
January 24, 2006 10:21:00 am

Members of a joint Louisiana House-Senate committee Monday approved a plan to set an April date for New Orleans city elections two days before US District Judge Ivan Lemelle was scheduled to hold hearings in a lawsuit ...

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News Khodorkovsky appeals Siberian prison regulations to Russian Supreme Court
Khodorkovsky appeals Siberian prison regulations to Russian Supreme Court
Krystal MacIntyre
January 23, 2006 02:20:00 pm

Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former owner of Russian oil giant Yukos convicted of tax fraud and now incarcerated in a Siberian prison , has appealed to the Russian Supreme...

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Slave trade abolished in Britain

A British bill abolishing the slave trade became law on March 25, 1807.

Learn more about slavery and the slave trade in Britain.

Scottsboro Boys arrested

On March 25, 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama for allegedly raping two white women. Twelve days later, the young men were put on trial in the nearby town of Scottsboro. After numerous the proceedings culminated in two landmark decisions by the US Supreme Court, Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. Ultimately, the death sentences issued by the jury were overturned, but the defendants were nonetheless sent to prison. The trials of the Scottsboro Boys have come to symbolize the role of race in the criminal justice system of the Jim Crow South. Read a history of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys, as composed by Law Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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