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News Spain judge bars ETA-linked Basque parties from March elections
Spain judge bars ETA-linked Basque parties from March elections
Steve Czajkowski
February 8, 2008 04:25:00 pm

A Spanish National Court judge Friday blocked two Basque political parties from fielding candidates in Spain's March general elections, ruling that the parties were connected to ETA , the armed Basque separatist movement....

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News Federal appeals court rules EPA power plant mercury emissions rules unlawful
Federal appeals court rules EPA power plant mercury emissions rules unlawful
Steve Czajkowski
February 8, 2008 03:03:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Friday ruled that the "cap-and-trade" policy, to be implemented in 2010 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate electrical power plant mercury emissions,...

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News Iraq president supports bill allowing reinstatement of ex-Baath party members
Iraq president supports bill allowing reinstatement of ex-Baath party members
Steve Czajkowski
February 2, 2008 04:54:00 pm

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Saturday that he supports a proposed law that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Baath Party to return to their old positions in government. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri...

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News Turkey must drop headscarf ban to aid EU entry bid: FM
Turkey must drop headscarf ban to aid EU entry bid: FM
Steve Czajkowski
February 2, 2008 02:54:00 pm

Turkey needs to lift its ban on women wearing headscarves at universities in order to improve the country's chances of accession into the European Union (EU) , Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Saturday. Turkey's Grand National...

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News Europe rights court rules against Turkey in police abuse cases
Europe rights court rules against Turkey in police abuse cases
Steve Czajkowski
February 1, 2008 12:07:00 pm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Turkey violated the human rights of two men when police subjected them to inhuman and degrading treatment and then failed to properly investigate their allegations of abuse....

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News Ex-Guantanamo prisoners in Sudan demand compensation and apology
Ex-Guantanamo prisoners in Sudan demand compensation and apology
Steve Czajkowski
January 26, 2008 03:32:00 pm

A Sudanese aid worker formerly held at Guantanamo Bay was among a group of ex-prisoners that demanded money and an apology from the US government Saturday for physical and mental torture they say they were subjected...

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News France police hold rogue bank trader suspected of massive fraud
France police hold rogue bank trader suspected of massive fraud
Steve Czajkowski
January 26, 2008 02:36:00 pm

Jerome Kerviel, a former trader at the French bank Societe Generale , turned himself in to French police Saturday in connection with an investigation of what caused the bank to lose more than $7 billion. Kerviel has been...

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News Bosnian Serb army commander transferred from ICTY to serve sentence in Norway
Bosnian Serb army commander transferred from ICTY to serve sentence in Norway
Steve Czajkowski
January 25, 2008 03:19:00 pm

Vidoje Blagojevic , former commander of the Bratunac Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, was transferred to Norway Friday to serve the remainder of his 15-year sentence for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica...

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News Bangladesh university professors acquitted of incitement charges
Bangladesh university professors acquitted of incitement charges
Steve Czajkowski
January 21, 2008 04:46:00 pm

Four professors at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh were acquitted Monday of inciting students during campus protests which caused the interim government to impose a curfew in August 2007. Eleven students...

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News Djibouti pressing ICJ for control over murder probe into French judge’s death
Djibouti pressing ICJ for control over murder probe into French judge’s death
Steve Czajkowski
January 21, 2008 03:17:00 pm

Lawyers for the east African state of Djibouti Monday asked the International Court of Justice to allow the country to take over a French murder probe into the death of French judge Bernard Borrel [advocacy website, in...

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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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