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Brazil court orders house arrest for 10 convicted in Bolsonaro coup attempt

December 29, 2025 05:02:27 pm

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Saturday sentenced 10 individuals to house arrest for plotting to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in power following his defeat in the 2022 election. The decision, issued by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, came shortly after Paraguayan authorities arrested a former senior police official linked to the case. [...]

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Russia court sentences pro-war activist and Putin critic to six years in prison

Samad Mirza | Newcastle Law School, GB

December 28, 2025 01:37:11 am

A court in Moscow on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Udaltsov, of justifying terrorism, sentencing him to six years in a maximum-security prison. The ruling was delivered by the 2nd Western District Military Court, which found Udaltsov guilty over an article he published more than two years ago defending [...]

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THIS DAY @ LAW

European human cloning treaty signed

On January 12, 1998, nineteen European nations signed a treaty prohibiting human cloning within their jurisdictions. Review the terms of the Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings.

WWII National War Labor Board established

On January 12, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt revived the National War Labor Board (NWLB) for World War II. In order to prevent wartime labor stoppages, the NWLB was set up to arbitrate labor disputes that arose during the war. The NWLB also managed wage controls over the airplane, automobile, shipping, mining, telegraph, and railway industries during the war. The original NWLB was created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I for largely the same purposes. Read Cornell University's collection of NWLB files from both World Wars.