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News Philippines lawyers protest ruling allowing president to appoint chief justice
Philippines lawyers protest ruling allowing president to appoint chief justice
Steve Dotterer
March 19, 2010 01:06:00 pm

Philippine lawyers and activists protested Friday in front of the Supreme Court in Manila following Wednesday's ruling , which held that the constitution does not prevent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from...

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News Vietnam authorities release dissident priest from prison
Vietnam authorities release dissident priest from prison
Steve Dotterer
March 16, 2010 06:09:00 am

Vietnamese authorities on Monday released a Catholic priest and leading rights activist from Hanoi prison. Father Nguyen Van Ly was released early Monday morning and has been reunited with his family in Hue. Ly had been...

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News North Korea rights situation continuing to deteriorate: UN investigator
North Korea rights situation continuing to deteriorate: UN investigator
Steve Dotterer
March 15, 2010 01:01:00 pm

UN Special Rapporteur for North Korea Vitit Muntarbhorn said Monday that the North Korean human rights situation is continuing to deteriorate. Presenting his report to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) , Muntarbhorn noted...

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News Europe rights commissioner cautions against burqa ban
Europe rights commissioner cautions against burqa ban
Steve Dotterer
March 8, 2010 02:44:00 pm

The top rights official at the Council of Europe on Monday rejected the notion of banning Muslim burqa and niqab garments. Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg noted in a...

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News China legislature weighs election reform proposal
China legislature weighs election reform proposal
Steve Dotterer
March 8, 2010 12:53:00 pm

The Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) on Monday opened consideration of election reforms designed to afford equal representation to residents of rural and urban administrative areas. China's current electoral law provides more congressional representatives to...

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UN creates Haiti rights working group to assist disabled earthquake victims
Steve Dotterer
March 5, 2010 11:57:00 am

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) announced on Friday the creation of a working group of rights experts to monitor the support offered to disabled Haitians as they attempt to...

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News Uighur Guantanamo detainees seek remand to district court for new trial
Uighur Guantanamo detainees seek remand to district court for new trial
Steve Dotterer
March 5, 2010 09:05:00 am

Lawyers for seven Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay filed a motion Thursday to remand proceedings from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the US District Court...

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Iran government bans reformist newspaper, moderate magazine
Steve Dotterer
March 1, 2010 11:08:00 am

The official Iranian press supervisory body on Monday banned reformist daily newspaper Etemaad and moderate weekly magazine Iran Dokht . Etemad is known as one of the few reformist newspapers that continued publishing after...

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ICTY begins war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb general
Steve Dotterer
February 26, 2010 02:43:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday opened the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Zdravko Tolimir . Tolimir is charged with genocide, conspiracy to...

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Venezuela rights chief disputes critical OAS report
Steve Dotterer
February 26, 2010 01:40:00 pm

The top Venezuelan human rights official on Thursday criticized findings in a report issued by the Organization of American States (OAS) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) . Ombudsman Gabriela...

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On October 4, 1974, the trial of Watergate conspirators HR Haldeman, John Erlichman, John Mitchell, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson began, Judge John Sirica presiding.

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