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News Acquitted 9/11 suspect leaves Germany, avoids deportation
Acquitted 9/11 suspect leaves Germany, avoids deportation
Krista-Ann Staley
June 21, 2005 09:30:00 am

Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi , acquitted by a Hamburg court in February on charges of helping the September 11 hijackers, flew home Tuesday to avoid deportation. Hamburg city officials had given Mzoudi two weeks to leave the country, or...

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News Terri Schiavo’s remains buried by husband
Terri Schiavo’s remains buried by husband
Krista-Ann Staley
June 21, 2005 08:26:00 am

Michael Schiavo buried the cremated remains of his late wife Terri Schiavo Monday at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater, Florida. He had previously said he would bury her remains in his family plot...

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News Former leaders urge transparency, fairness in Hussein trial
Former leaders urge transparency, fairness in Hussein trial
Krista-Ann Staley
June 17, 2005 11:25:00 am

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad , whose 22 years in office until 2003 made him one of Asia's longest-serving political leaders, Friday urged transparency and fairness in the trial of Saddam Hussein while announcing the launch of...

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News Sweden, Finland, Portugal put EU constitution ratifications on hold
Sweden, Finland, Portugal put EU constitution ratifications on hold
Krista-Ann Staley
June 17, 2005 10:42:00 am

Sweden, Finland and Portugal have joined Britain, Denmark, Ireland and the Czech Republic in postponing their ratifications of the EU constitution after European heads of governent Thursday agreed to extend the ratification deadline into 2007....

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News Senate Democrats balk at Bolton nomination again after memo hearing
Senate Democrats balk at Bolton nomination again after memo hearing
Krista-Ann Staley
June 17, 2005 09:07:00 am

Senate Democrats refused a Republican compromise over the nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN Thursday, demanding more information than GOP leadership offered on his pre-Iraq war assessments of several countries' weapons programs. Democrats...

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News Halliburton awarded Guantanamo expansion contract
Halliburton awarded Guantanamo expansion contract
Krista-Ann Staley
June 17, 2005 08:16:00 am

The US Department of Defense has awarded Kellogg Brown and Root Services , the engineering and construction arm of Halliburton , the contract to build a planned $30 million permanent detention facility...

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News UN rights chief says Canada top court may need to revisit deportation ruling
UN rights chief says Canada top court may need to revisit deportation ruling
Krista-Ann Staley
June 14, 2005 10:53:00 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, formerly a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, said Monday in an interview that the Canadian high court will likely have to revisit a 2002 deportation ruling that may conflict...

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News Swaziland adopts new constitution
Swaziland adopts new constitution
Krista-Ann Staley
June 14, 2005 10:26:00 am

The House of Assembly and Senate of Swaziland have approved a new constitution . King Mswati III must now approve the document, which fuses centuries-old traditions and Western democratic principles. The constitution is...

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News Senior EU official calls for hold on expansion after constitution debacle
Senior EU official calls for hold on expansion after constitution debacle
Krista-Ann Staley
June 14, 2005 10:12:00 am

A senior European Union official called for a break in EU expansion Monday, addressing the media days before EU leaders will meet to discuss fallout from rejections of the EU Constitution in France and the Netherlands [JURIST...

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News War crimes prosecutor presses for arrest of Srebrenica killers
War crimes prosecutor presses for arrest of Srebrenica killers
Krista-Ann Staley
June 14, 2005 08:32:00 am

The UN war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia called for the arrest of three men responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims in an address to the UN Security Council Monday. Carla...

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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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