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News HRW: Morocco authorities obstructing independent rights organization
HRW: Morocco authorities obstructing independent rights organization
Lawrenz Fares
February 20, 2017 12:51:51 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that Moroccan authorities have been on a two-year campaign to obstruct Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) , the country's largest independent human rights organization. According to HRW,...

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News Federal appeals court suspends immigration order proceedings
Federal appeals court suspends immigration order proceedings
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February 17, 2017 12:12:51 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday issued a stay of proceedings concerning President Donald Trump's executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. Representatives from the Department of Justice...

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News Washington Supreme Court rules florist broke anti-discrimination laws
Washington Supreme Court rules florist broke anti-discrimination laws
Lawrenz Fares
February 17, 2017 11:33:31 am

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a florist that refused to sell flowers to a same-sex couple for their wedding violated the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) . The WLAD bars "unfair practices of...

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News HRW: Pakistan forcefully removing Afghan refugees
HRW: Pakistan forcefully removing Afghan refugees
Lawrenz Fares
February 13, 2017 01:21:31 pm

Pakistani authorities have driven nearly 600,000 Afghan refugees back into Afghanistan since July 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Monday. HRW claims that among those being forced out of the country are 365,000...

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News DuPont and Chemours Co settle lawsuits relating to chemical leaks
DuPont and Chemours Co settle lawsuits relating to chemical leaks
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February 13, 2017 12:52:14 pm

DuPont and Chemours Co settled approximately 3,550 personal injury claims for $671 million on Monday. The claims arose after a leak of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) , a chemical used to make Teflon with known...

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News New Hampshire lawmakers approve permitless conceal carry bill
New Hampshire lawmakers approve permitless conceal carry bill
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February 10, 2017 12:28:27 pm

The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would repeal the law prohibiting state citizens from carrying concealed firearms without a permit. Though similar bills have passed through...

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News Romania justice minister resigns after corruption decree
Romania justice minister resigns after corruption decree
Lawrenz Fares
February 10, 2017 11:57:42 am

Romanian Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , resigned on Thursday in the wake of protests calling for the government to resign. During his press...

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News HRW: Saudi Arabia intensifies actions against human rights advocates
HRW: Saudi Arabia intensifies actions against human rights advocates
Lawrenz Fares
February 6, 2017 01:13:08 pm

Saudi Arabia has intensified its arrests and convictions of human rights advocates and dissenting writers in 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday. In January a Saudi court sentenced two human rights activists to long...

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News Romania minister to publish details of controversial new bill
Romania minister to publish details of controversial new bill
Lawrenz Fares
February 6, 2017 12:34:00 pm

Romania's Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , announced on Monday morning that he would soon publish details of an alternative bill to update the criminal...

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News South Dakota lawmakers repeal voter-approved anti-corruption law
South Dakota lawmakers repeal voter-approved anti-corruption law
Lawrenz Fares
February 3, 2017 12:35:08 pm

South Dakota lawmakers on Thursday repealed an anti-corruption measure that was approved by voter referendum in November. According to Yes22 , the organization which helped mobilize voter support for the referendum, IM 22 aimed to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi SS and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps. Read a biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted anti-Vietnam War bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution. Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts.

Trial of Marquess of Queensberry begins, leading to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde

On April 2, 1895, the libel trial of the Marquess of Queensberry began on allegations that he called Oscar Wilde a "posing somdomite [sic]". The trial led to the disclosure of details of Wilde's personal life that eventually resulted in his imprisonment for homosexuality. Read about the trials of Oscar Wilde.

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