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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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News Michigan governor seeks advisory opinion on right to work law
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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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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