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News Google stops censoring China search results after legal dispute
Google stops censoring China search results after legal dispute
Sarah Miley
March 23, 2010 12:13:00 pm

Google officially stopped censoring search results to Chinese users on Tuesday after a legal impasse was reached between the Internet giant and the Chinese government. Google announced Monday that it would be rerouting the Google.cn...

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News Togo court affirms contested election of incumbent president
Togo court affirms contested election of incumbent president
Sarah Miley
March 18, 2010 03:05:00 pm

The Constitutional Court of Togo on Wednesday affirmed the election of incumbent President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe despite five suits alleging voter fraud filed by the opposition. The court held...

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News Rwanda tribunal affirms genocide conviction of Hutu singer
Rwanda tribunal affirms genocide conviction of Hutu singer
Sarah Miley
March 18, 2010 02:00:00 pm

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday affirmed the genocide conviction of popular Rwandan singer-songwriter Simon Bikindi . The charge was based on...

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News Afghanistan confirms enactment of war crimes pardon law
Afghanistan confirms enactment of war crimes pardon law
Sarah Miley
March 16, 2010 12:13:00 pm

The Afghanistan Office of the President openly confirmed for the first time on Tuesday that the government has enacted a law providing a blanket pardon for all war crimes and human rights violations occurring before December 2001....

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News Ginsburg backs end to judicial elections
Ginsburg backs end to judicial elections
Sarah Miley
March 12, 2010 01:32:00 pm

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg endorsed a ban on the election of judges at the state and local level on Thursday while speaking at a conference for the National Association of Women Judges...

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News China chides US on rights record in report response
China chides US on rights record in report response
Sarah Miley
March 12, 2010 12:15:00 pm

The Chinese government responded on Friday to the release of a US human rights report critical of China by issuing its own report criticizing the US human rights record. The report covered issues relating to crime,...

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News Germany court convicts four Islamists over terror plot
Germany court convicts four Islamists over terror plot
Sarah Miley
March 4, 2010 01:59:00 pm

A German court in Dusseldorf on Thursday convicted four Islamists of conspiracy to murder and belonging to a foreign terrorist group for plotting to destroy US facilities within Germany. The four men, members of the radical Islamic Jihad Union...

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News Montenegrin war crimes suspect arrested in Spain
Montenegrin war crimes suspect arrested in Spain
Sarah Miley
March 2, 2010 12:03:00 pm

Spain's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that national police agents have arrested accused Montenegrin war criminal Veselin Vlahovic in southeastern Spain. Vlahovic, known as the "monster of Grbavica," is wanted on three...

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News Australia court rules former Guantanamo detainee can sue government
Australia court rules former Guantanamo detainee can sue government
Sarah Miley
February 26, 2010 06:10:00 am

The Federal Court of Australia ruled Thursday that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib can sue the Australian government for complicity in his ill-treatment while incarcerated in Pakistan, Egypt,...

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UK chief prosecutor publishes new policy on assisted suicide
Sarah Miley
February 25, 2010 02:08:00 pm

UK Director of Public Prosecutions (DDP), Keir Starmer , published a new policy on Thursday for prosecutors in regards to cases of assisted suicide . While the new policy does not legalize assisted...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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