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News Zimbabwe police raid offices of opposition party, election observers
Zimbabwe police raid offices of opposition party, election observers
Nick Fiske
April 25, 2008 03:45:00 pm

Zimbabwean police Friday raided the offices of independent election observers and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) , arresting hundreds in an alleged crackdown on anti-government subversives. Witnesses say that police were searching for vote counting materials...

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News US Marine charged in Fallujah murder should face court-martial: hearing officer
US Marine charged in Fallujah murder should face court-martial: hearing officer
Nick Fiske
April 25, 2008 02:57:00 pm

US Marine Sgt. Jermaine A. Nelson should face court-martial for the November 2004 murder of an Iraqi detainee in Fallujah , a US Marine hearing officer found following an Article 32 pretrial hearing . Nelson was...

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News Egypt court silent on charges for convicted Muslim Brotherhood members: lawyers
Egypt court silent on charges for convicted Muslim Brotherhood members: lawyers
Nick Fiske
April 17, 2008 07:25:00 pm

An Egyptian military court has yet to release details of the charges on which 25 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood were convicted and sentenced Tuesday, a lawyer for the Brotherhood told Reuters...

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News House panel asks Rove to testify on alleged role in DOJ Siegelman prosecution
House panel asks Rove to testify on alleged role in DOJ Siegelman prosecution
Nick Fiske
April 17, 2008 06:26:00 pm

The US House Judiciary Committee Thursday called upon former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to testify concerning any involvement in the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman [official profile; JURIST news...

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News Khadr prosecution, defense spar over military commission trial delays
Khadr prosecution, defense spar over military commission trial delays
Nick Fiske
April 12, 2008 11:31:00 am

Frustrations over the delay of the US military commission trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr continued Friday, with prosecutors urging US military judge Col. Peter Brownback to set a trial date and...

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News Chertoff says DHS moving ahead with domestic spy satellite program
Chertoff says DHS moving ahead with domestic spy satellite program
Nick Fiske
April 12, 2008 10:00:00 am

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that DHS will move forward with plans to use spy satellites as part of a domestic intelligence program designed to assist law enforcement agencies. In his...

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News Guantanamo guards seize items given to Khadr by military lawyer
Guantanamo guards seize items given to Khadr by military lawyer
Nick Fiske
April 10, 2008 07:34:00 pm

Guards at Guantanamo Bay have confiscated several unapproved items, including news articles printed off the Internet and a "Lord of the Rings" movie script, from Canadian detainee Omar Khadr , officials said...

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News House lawyers slam White House executive privilege claims as broadest ‘since Watergate’
House lawyers slam White House executive privilege claims as broadest ‘since Watergate’
Nick Fiske
April 10, 2008 06:01:00 pm

The White House's interpretation of executive privilege to shield former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and current White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten from Congressional subpoenas represents the broadest construction of the doctrine since Watergate, lawyers...

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News Expelled Afghanistan female MP petitions for reinstatement
Expelled Afghanistan female MP petitions for reinstatement
Nick Fiske
April 5, 2008 04:13:00 pm

Former Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya said Saturday that she has hired a lawyer and is now fighting her controversial May 2007 removal from the Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament ....

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News Zimbabwe court postpones hearing on lawsuit to force election results release
Zimbabwe court postpones hearing on lawsuit to force election results release
Nick Fiske
April 5, 2008 03:42:00 pm

The Harare High Court on Saturday postponed a hearing on a lawsuit seeking to compel the country's Electoral Commission to release the results of last Saturday's elections after lawyers for Zimbabwean opposition party...

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Trial of former-Yugoslavia leader Slobodan Milošević begins

On February 12, 2002, the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of Yugoslavia, began at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Milošević was indicted on sixty-six counts of war crimes allegedly perpetrated during the Balkan civil wars of the 1990s, including allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity. The trial ended without a verdict, when Milosevic died of a heart attack during the proceedings. Read ICTY documents from the trial of Slobodan Milošević.

Congress passed Fugitive Slave Law

On February 12, 1793, the US Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, prohibiting anyone from assisting a runaway slave.

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