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News Myanmar constitution referendum set for May 10
Myanmar constitution referendum set for May 10
Katerina Ossenova
April 9, 2008 02:46:00 pm

Myanmar's 45-member Referendum Holding Commission has scheduled a planned national constitutional referendum for May 10, the military government announced Wednesday. Opposition groups like the National League for Democracy (NLD) have urged citizens to reject the...

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News Military defense lawyer appointed for alleged 9/11 mastermind
Military defense lawyer appointed for alleged 9/11 mastermind
Katerina Ossenova
April 9, 2008 02:20:00 pm

The US Department of Defense has assigned Navy Captain Prescott Prince to defend confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed before a US military commission, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday....

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News Al-Marri lawyers claim 2003 DOJ memo shows ‘enemy combatant’ detention illegal
Al-Marri lawyers claim 2003 DOJ memo shows ‘enemy combatant’ detention illegal
Katerina Ossenova
April 9, 2008 01:29:00 pm

A 2003 US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel memorandum demonstrates that the detention of Illinois resident and Qatari native Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri "lacks legal basis" as the detention...

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News Kosovo parliament adopts new constitution
Kosovo parliament adopts new constitution
Katerina Ossenova
April 9, 2008 01:06:00 pm

The Assembly of Kosovo Wednesday adopted the country's new draft constitution without a vote, which was signed earlier this week by top Kosovo officials. Last week, the European Union certified...

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News Pakistan constitutional reform package could restore ousted judges
Pakistan constitutional reform package could restore ousted judges
Katerina Ossenova
April 7, 2008 12:10:00 pm

Pakistani Law and Justice Minister Farooq H. Naik has prepared a constitutional package that could restore judges ousted by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf , the Pakistani Nation daily reported Monday. The package, which has reportedly...

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UN council begins universal human rights reviews
Katerina Ossenova
April 7, 2008 11:25:00 am

The UN Human Rights Council held its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Monday, reviewing the human rights record of Bahrain. Under the UPR, the 47-member Council will systematically investigate the human rights situations...

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News Zimbabwe court claims jurisdiction over lawsuit to force election results release
Zimbabwe court claims jurisdiction over lawsuit to force election results release
Katerina Ossenova
April 7, 2008 11:06:00 am

A High Court judge in Harare said Monday that the court has jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit seeking a court order to compel the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) to immediately release the results of the nation's March...

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News ICTY acquits former Kosovo PM of war crimes charges
ICTY acquits former Kosovo PM of war crimes charges
Katerina Ossenova
April 3, 2008 05:36:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Thursday acquitted former Kosovo prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Ramush Haradinaj of all charges. Haradinaj and...

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ICE sued over ‘illegal’ immigration raids
Katerina Ossenova
April 3, 2008 05:11:00 pm

Law enforcement officials from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violated the constitutional privacy and due process rights of suspected illegal aliens by raiding their homes , according to a complaint filed in...

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EU certifies Kosovo constitution as meeting international rights standards
Katerina Ossenova
April 3, 2008 04:42:00 pm

The European Union Thursday certified that Kosovo's constitution is in line with its international obligations, guaranteeing the individual and community rights of all its citizens. The constitution is expected to come...

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Seventeen tried in Stalin purge

On January 23, 1937, seventeen of Joseph Stalin's political enemies went on trial in Moscow during the Soviet leader's Great Purge. This trial of seventeen represented the second of the three "Moscow Trials" in which prominent Soviet leaders were accused and convicted of conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code. The defendants were sentenced to execution or deportation to work camps.

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