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US Coast Guard chief calls for enforcement of international piracy laws
Lucas Tanglen
April 12, 2009 02:13:00 pm

A "legal framework" is needed to enforce existing international laws against piracy , Adm. Thad Allen , Commandant of the US Coast Guard , said in an interview on ABC's "This...

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Russia rights commissioner concerned over attacks on activists
Lucas Tanglen
April 8, 2009 09:29:00 am

Human rights activists in Russia are being attacked with greater frequency, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin said Wednesday in an interview with Vesti television . Lukin was responding to the recent...

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Bangladesh exploring trial of 1971 war crimes suspects with UN
Lucas Tanglen
April 8, 2009 07:59:00 am

The government of Bangladesh said Tuesday it is working with the UN to organize war crimes prosecutions for alleged violations stemming from the country's 1971 War of Independence against Pakistan [JURIST...

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Malaysia conditionally releases detainees held under controversial security law
Lucas Tanglen
April 5, 2009 11:33:00 am

Officials in Malaysia on Sunday announced the release of 13 people who were detained under the country's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) , in a move called for Friday by Prime Minister Najib...

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News UN rights committee urges Rwanda to investigate post-genocide killings
UN rights committee urges Rwanda to investigate post-genocide killings
Lucas Tanglen
April 5, 2009 10:02:00 am

The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Friday called on the government of Rwanda to investigate reports of killings during and after the uprising by the Rwandan Patriotic Army to end the 1994 genocide...

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Ex-Khmer Rouge leader seeks release to ‘safe house’ during Cambodia genocide trial
Lucas Tanglen
April 1, 2009 11:05:00 am

A lawyer for former Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek Eav argued Wednesday that judges in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) should release Kaing, also known as...

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Israel removes prisoner privileges in bid to put pressure on Hamas
Lucas Tanglen
March 29, 2009 12:08:00 pm

The Israeli Cabinet voted in a meeting Sunday to deny Hamas prisoners privileges not required by law, such as education, entertainment and some visitation. The move, recommended by Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann [official profile; JURIST...

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US, Yemen should allow ‘meaningful legal process’ in Guantanamo repatriation: HRW
Lucas Tanglen
March 29, 2009 10:18:00 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Sunday for the US and Yemen to agree on a repatriation plan that provides "meaningful legal process" for the nearly 100 Yemeni detainees still at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...

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Federal judge orders revision of religious worker immigration policy
Lucas Tanglen
March 25, 2009 08:18:00 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington  Monday ordered the revision of a US government regulation  that singles out religious workers applying for permanent residency. Judge Robert Lasnik...

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Uighur Guantanamo detainees seek contempt charge for US defense secretary
Lucas Tanglen
March 22, 2009 11:45:00 am

Lawyers for five Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay on Friday moved to have Defense Secretary Robert Gates held in contempt after...

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Slave trade abolished in Britain

A British bill abolishing the slave trade became law on March 25, 1807.

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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 U.S. 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 and biographies of the major figures involved, as composed by Law Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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