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News Rights groups balk at Sudan leadership of AU
Rights groups balk at Sudan leadership of AU
Lauren Becker
January 16, 2006 02:17:00 pm

Human rights groups Monday voiced objections to Sudan President Omar al-Bashir becoming the rotating chair of the African Union for 2006-2007 when African nations hold a summit in Khartoum next week. In a letter to...

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News Taiwan president promises steps toward new constitution
Taiwan president promises steps toward new constitution
Lauren Becker
January 2, 2006 07:56:00 am

In his New Year message , Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian promised Sunday to support a new Taiwanese constitution in his last two years of presidency. A new constitution would have to be approved by the legislature before...

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News Milosevic can’t call Blair, Schroeder to testify, ICTY rules
Milosevic can’t call Blair, Schroeder to testify, ICTY rules
Lauren Becker
December 9, 2005 02:26:00 pm

Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Friday decided that they will not issue subpoenas for UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder...

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News Second appeal filed against Khodorkovsky tax fraud conviction
Second appeal filed against Khodorkovsky tax fraud conviction
Lauren Becker
December 9, 2005 02:04:00 pm

Lawyers for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced Friday that they have filed a second appeal to overturn Khodorkovsky's conviction on tax evasion and fraud charges . Khodorkovsky, former head of...

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News Miami airline passenger never claimed bomb, witnesses say
Miami airline passenger never claimed bomb, witnesses say
Lauren Becker
December 9, 2005 01:32:00 pm

Eyewitness reports are showing that Rigoberto Alpizar , who was shot and killed onboard a plane at the Miami International Airport Wednesday, never claimed to have a bomb . Federal officials say they opened fire...

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News UK judges to consider whether ‘coerced evidence’ led to terror detentions
UK judges to consider whether ‘coerced evidence’ led to terror detentions
Lauren Becker
December 9, 2005 12:58:00 pm

In order to comply with Thursday's judgment from the UK Law Lords banning the use of evidence obtained through torture, judges on Britain's Special Immigration Appeals Court (SIAC) will hold hearings early next year to...

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News Spanish minister says US plane stops legal
Spanish minister says US plane stops legal
Lauren Becker
November 25, 2005 11:31:00 am

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Thursday that media reports that US CIA planes had made secret illegal stops in Spain while carrying terror suspects were unjustified as the US stopovers were legal, but promised to check...

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News Pinochet indicted on human rights charges
Pinochet indicted on human rights charges
Lauren Becker
November 25, 2005 11:03:00 am

Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was formally charged with human rights violations Thursday and placed under house arrest on the heels of an unrelated indictment on corruption charges filed Wednesday on which he...

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News US set to execute 1,000th convict since 1977
US set to execute 1,000th convict since 1977
Lauren Becker
November 25, 2005 10:22:00 am

Next Wednesday Robin Lovitt , 41, is slated to become the 1,000th person to be executed since the 10 year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States was lifted in 1977. He...

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News US not charging Padilla on "dirty bomb" because of torture evidence: NYT
US not charging Padilla on "dirty bomb" because of torture evidence: NYT
Lauren Becker
November 25, 2005 09:35:00 am

Jose Padilla , a US citizen charged with planning to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the US, will not face those charges because US officials obtained evidence against him using torture on two al-Qaida members, according...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died in police custody

On September 12, 1977, South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died in police custody after having suffered a massive head injury during interrogation following his arrest. The story of journalist Donald Woods' investigation into the circumstances of Biko's death was the basis of the 1987 film Cry Freedom. Read an address on Stephen Biko delivered by then-South African President Nelson Mandela on the 20th anniversary of Biko's death in 1997.

Supreme Court unanimously rejects state challenge Brown v. Board of Education

On September 12, 1958, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a state government challenge to Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which had overturned segregation. In Cooper vs. Aaron, the State Government of Arkansas challenged the authority of the Court to implement desegregation. The Court responded by forcefully re-asserting its authority and the authority of the federal government over the states.

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