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News UN rights experts urge Iran to release detained journalists
UN rights experts urge Iran to release detained journalists
Daniel Mullen
February 5, 2013 01:22:53 pm

A group of UN independent human rights experts on Tuesday urged Iran to end the recent crackdown on journalists and to release those who have been already been detained. The group includes the Special Rapporteur on freedom...

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Military judge orders mental health exam for suspected USS Cole bomber
Daniel Mullen
February 5, 2013 12:49:39 pm

Colonel James Pohl, the military judge presiding over the trial of suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , on Monday ordered a mental health examination for the defendant to determine whether he is competent to stand...

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News Vietnam authorities release American pro-democracy activist
Vietnam authorities release American pro-democracy activist
Daniel Mullen
January 31, 2013 02:57:20 pm

Vietnamese authorities on Wednesday released and deported Vietnamese-American pro-democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan after nine months of detention. Quan was arrested on terrorism charges for planning protests in support of a banned group of US exiles, the...

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News China court sentences Tibetans for encouraging self-immolation
China court sentences Tibetans for encouraging self-immolation
Daniel Mullen
January 31, 2013 01:54:28 pm

A Chinese court has sentenced two Tibetans for inciting self-immolation according to a Thursday report from Xinhua , China's state news agency. The two men were charged with intentional homicide after inciting and coercing eight people...

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Michigan governor seeks advisory opinion on right to work law
Daniel Mullen
January 29, 2013 01:10:46 pm

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder sent a letter to the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court on Monday requesting an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of the state's right to work law. Under...

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Myanmar ends ban on public gatherings after 25 years
Daniel Mullen
January 29, 2013 12:37:43 pm

Myanmar's state-run newspaper Myanma Ahlin reported Tuesday that President Thein Sein abolished Order No. 2/88, which banned gathering and delivering speeches in public by a group of five or more people. The order, which was established in...

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News UN disburses $1.3 billion in compensation for Iraq invasion of Kuwait
UN disburses $1.3 billion in compensation for Iraq invasion of Kuwait
Daniel Mullen
January 25, 2013 07:55:50 am

The UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) on Thursday announced a disbursement of $1.3 billion to two claimants who suffered damages during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The two...

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News Federal judge sentences US citizen to 35 years for role in Mumbai terror attack
Federal judge sentences US citizen to 35 years for role in Mumbai terror attack
Daniel Mullen
January 24, 2013 03:09:44 pm

Judge Harry Leinenweber of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday issued a 35-year prison sentence to David Coleman Headley for his role in the 2008 terror attacks in...

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Pakistan Foreign Minister condemns US drone attacks
Daniel Mullen
January 22, 2013 01:27:27 pm

Pakistan's Foreign Affairs Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday condemned US drone attacks as a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and international law. Khar stated that the drone attacks are "counterproductive" and that she plans...

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Turkish court charges nine lawyers under anti-terrorism law
Daniel Mullen
January 22, 2013 12:17:37 pm

A Turkish court on Monday charged nine lawyers for membership in an outlawed group under Turkey's anti-terrorism laws. The lawyers, including some human rights advocates , are accused of being associated with the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (RPLP)...

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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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