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News Uzbek rights activist on trial for aiding terrorism during Andijan uprising
Uzbek rights activist on trial for aiding terrorism during Andijan uprising
Krystal MacIntyre
January 11, 2006 12:50:00 pm

Saidjahan Zainabiddinov, an Uzbek human rights activist who witnessed an violent uprising in Andijan last May has been put on trial on charges of undermining the constitutional system and assisting terrorism for aiding journalists covering the uprising...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments in police search appeal
Supreme Court hears arguments in police search appeal
Krystal MacIntyre
January 9, 2006 03:44:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Hudson v. Michigan where it will decide whether police officers were justified in entering a plaintiff's home without knocking when they arrived with...

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News Jury selection begins in ‘Iraqi agent’ trial
Jury selection begins in ‘Iraqi agent’ trial
Krystal MacIntyre
January 9, 2006 03:04:00 pm

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, an Indiana truck driver accused of offering to sell names of US covert operatives to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government. Charges against Shaaban laid last...

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News Police accused of murdering Ukraine journalist stand trial
Police accused of murdering Ukraine journalist stand trial
Krystal MacIntyre
January 9, 2006 02:32:00 pm

The trial of three former police officers for the murder of prominent Ukraine opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has begun in Kiev. Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych are accused of carrying out the killing in September...

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News UK terror trial begins for Muslim cleric Abu Hamza
UK terror trial begins for Muslim cleric Abu Hamza
Krystal MacIntyre
January 9, 2006 01:58:00 pm

The trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , charged under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 for inciting racial hatred, began in London on Monday. Hamza was arrested last May on a US extradition warrant, and...

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News UK judge approves extradition of British terror suspect to the US
UK judge approves extradition of British terror suspect to the US
Krystal MacIntyre
January 5, 2006 12:05:00 pm

A British judge on Thursday said that Haroon Rashid Aswat , a British citizen wanted in the US on suspicion of setting up a terrorist training camp, could be extradited to the United States. Aswat was arrested in...

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News Lay, Skilling request change of venue in Enron trial
Lay, Skilling request change of venue in Enron trial
Krystal MacIntyre
January 5, 2006 11:07:00 am

Lawyers for former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling on Wednesday afternoon filed a motion to move the location of the trial, where both defendants face charges of conspiracy and...

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News UNHCR, rights groups urge Egypt not to deport Sudan refugees
UNHCR, rights groups urge Egypt not to deport Sudan refugees
Krystal MacIntyre
January 5, 2006 10:10:00 am

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday appealed to Egyptian authorities in an attempt to prevent the deportation of 654 Sudanese refugees whom Cairo authorities say are in the country illegally. Also Wednesday, US-based rights...

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News Sikh group plans lawsuit against French religious dress ban
Sikh group plans lawsuit against French religious dress ban
Krystal MacIntyre
January 4, 2006 02:31:00 pm

A US-based Sikh group has announced Tuesday that it will use EU anti-discrimination law to challenge a current French law banning religious dress , including Sikh turbans, in state schools. United Sikhs claims...

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News Boston Archdiocese settlement rejected in pending sex abuse cases
Boston Archdiocese settlement rejected in pending sex abuse cases
Krystal MacIntyre
January 4, 2006 01:09:00 pm

Victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston priests have rejected an archdiocese settlement offer , lawyers said Tuesday. The proposal, which came late last month, offered average payments of $75,000 per person, and...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, US President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

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