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News Rights activist Kasparov compares Putin to Caligula for judicial appointment
Rights activist Kasparov compares Putin to Caligula for judicial appointment
Matthew Shames
February 4, 2005 10:00:00 am

Former chess champion Garry Kasparov, who now works as a human rights activist, has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of creating a puppet judiciary to persecute opposition leaders. Kasparov compared Putin's recent appointment of an inexperienced jurist...

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News Former Abu Ghraib guard asks jury for mercy
Former Abu Ghraib guard asks jury for mercy
Matthew Shames
February 4, 2005 09:28:00 am

After pleading guilty earlier this week to charges of battery, dereliction of duty, and lying to Army investigators in connection with alleged alleged abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Sgt. Javal Davis Thursday asked jurors to...

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US Navy says 3 more Gitmo prisoners wrongly classified
Matthew Shames
February 4, 2005 09:09:00 am

The US Navy announced Thursday that 3 additional prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay had been wrongly classified as "enemy combatants." The findings were made by Combatant Status Review Tribunals instituted after last July's Supreme Court ruling...

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UK High Court upholds hunting ban, Parliament Act
Matthew Shames
January 28, 2005 10:57:00 am

In a ruling with significant constitutional implications, the UK High Court Friday upheld a law banning the use of hunting with dogs in England and Wales. Challenging the law, the Countryside Alliance had argued that the 1949...

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Serbian general facing war crimes charges surrenders
Matthew Shames
January 28, 2005 10:35:00 am

Vladimir Lazarevic, a Serbian army general accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 , surrendered to Serbian authorities on Friday. Lazarevic, the former commander of the army's "Pristina Corps" stands accused of planning, instigating, ordering, and...

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News Russian military officers arrested for helping terrorists seize school
Russian military officers arrested for helping terrorists seize school
Matthew Shames
January 28, 2005 10:07:00 am

Two high-ranking Russian military officers have been arrested and warrants have been issued for the arrest of several others after the Russian parliamentary commission investigating last year's terrorist seizure of a school in Beslan handed over evidence to law...

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News Australian Guantanamo detainee freed
Australian Guantanamo detainee freed
Matthew Shames
January 28, 2005 09:52:00 am

Mamdouh Habib , an Australian who has been held for the last 3 years at the terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, returned home to Australia Friday. Habib was arrested in Pakistan in 2001,...

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EU leaders to push for ban on Nazi symbols
Matthew Shames
January 28, 2005 09:32:00 am

Luxembourg Justice Minister Luc Frieden , speaking Friday at a meeting of EU justice ministers, has called for the European Union to institute a ban on the use of Nazi symbols as part of a larger effort to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

New law makes Hitler dictator of Germany

On August 3, 1934, the German Parliament passed a law that combined the offices of President and Chancellor, making Adolf Hitler the supreme leader (Fuehrer und Reichskanzler) of Germany. Prior to the law's passage, Hitler had been the German Chancellor with Paul von Hindenberg serving as President. However, Hindenberg died on August 2, and Parliament was pressured to combine the two offices instead of holding an election to replace the deceased President of Germany.

US Congress passed first law regulating immigration

On August 3, 1882, Congress passed the first federal law regulating immigration. Under the statute, state-run boards under contract to the US Secretary of the Treasury were to inspect immigrants according to rules that were uniform in all ports. Boards were prohibited from admitting any immigrant found to be a "convict, lunatic, idiot or any person unable to take care of him or herself without becoming a public charge."

Learn more about eugenics laws restricting immigration.

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