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News Afghanistan assembly election results announced after fraud investigations
Afghanistan assembly election results announced after fraud investigations
Nishat Hasan
November 13, 2005 10:37:00 am

Final certified results of the September 18 Afghan election for the Wolesi Jirga (lower-house of parliament) and councils in all 34 provinces were released Saturday. Among those elected were three former members of the deposed...

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News Texas prosecutor subpoenas 2002 e-mails from DeLay associates
Texas prosecutor subpoenas 2002 e-mails from DeLay associates
Nishat Hasan
October 28, 2005 08:46:00 am

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle has subpoenaed all 2002 e-mail correspondence to and from the three indicted associates of Rep. Tom DeLay , though the request was not made of DeLay. John...

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News Mexico becomes 100th nation to ratify International Criminal Court statute
Mexico becomes 100th nation to ratify International Criminal Court statute
Nishat Hasan
October 28, 2005 08:25:00 am

UN officials have announced that Mexico will become the 100th nation to ratify the Rome Statute , the 1998 treaty creating the International Criminal Court , when Mexican officials deposit their ratification documents Friday. The court was...

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News French president calls for international tribunal for Hariri killers
French president calls for international tribunal for Hariri killers
Nishat Hasan
October 28, 2005 07:57:00 am

French President Jacques Chirac has called for an international tribunal to try Syrian and Lebanese suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . The UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) submitted its interim...

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News Cover-up charges reportedly being  considered in CIA leak case
Cover-up charges reportedly being considered in CIA leak case
Nishat Hasan
October 21, 2005 09:02:00 am

Charges of making false statements, obstruction of justice, disclosing classified information and conspiracy are being considered by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald against administration officials in the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity, lawyers close...

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News Gitmo doctor denies using feeding tubes to punish striking detainees
Gitmo doctor denies using feeding tubes to punish striking detainees
Nishat Hasan
October 21, 2005 08:22:00 am

Dr. John Edmondson, chief medical officer at Guantanamo Bay , has denied accusations that feeding tubes are being used to punish detainees. In an affidavit filed in federal court, Edmondson stated that only trained doctors and nurses...

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News DeLay to appear in court on money laundering, conspiracy charges
DeLay to appear in court on money laundering, conspiracy charges
Nishat Hasan
October 21, 2005 07:26:00 am

Rep. Tom DeLay will appear in an Austin courtroom Friday morning to answer charges that he helped funnel corporate donations to GOP candidates for the Texas Legislature in violation of Texas state law. The appearance...

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News Lawyer for Gitmo hunger-strikers asks judge to allow  more legal, medical visits
Lawyer for Gitmo hunger-strikers asks judge to allow more legal, medical visits
Nishat Hasan
October 14, 2005 04:36:00 pm

A lawyer for detainees at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay currently on hunger strike argued Friday before US District Judge Gladys Kessler that prisoner attorneys needed more frequent access to...

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News US attorney investigating commentator paid to push No Child Left Behind
US attorney investigating commentator paid to push No Child Left Behind
Nishat Hasan
October 14, 2005 03:33:00 pm

The chief counsel for Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has said that the US Attorney for the District of Columbia is now investigating conservative radio commentator Armstrong Williams . Williams was hired by the...

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News Bolton says Security Council expansion unlikely
Bolton says Security Council expansion unlikely
Nishat Hasan
October 14, 2005 03:04:00 pm

US ambassador to the UN John Bolton predicted on Friday that current efforts to dramatically expand the number of seats on the UN Security Council will fail. The 15-member council currently has five permanent members...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed

On February 21, 1971, the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The Convention was promulgated to regulate psychotropic drugs, extending the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which applied to cannabis-, cocoa-, and opium-based drugs. In 1988, the UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was promulgated to address international drug manufacture, possession, and distribution, primarily in organized crime. 175 nations are now parties to the Convention. Member nations have implemented the Convention in the form of domestic laws such as the US Psychotropic Substances Act, the UK Misuse of Drugs Act, and the Canadian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Former Nixon AG Mitchell sentenced to prison for Watergate

On February 21, 1975, former US Attorney General John Mitchell, Nixon Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic adviser John Ehrlichman were sentenced to prison terms of 2 1/2 to 8 years for obstructing justice in the Watergate affair.

Learn more about John Mitchell from the Washington Post.

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