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News Trial halted for former Guatemala leader accused of genocide
Trial halted for former Guatemala leader accused of genocide
Sarah Paulsworth
April 20, 2013 09:12:45 am

The genocide trial for former Guatemala president Efrain Rios Montt came to a halt Thursday, potentially discarding nearly a year-and-a-half of court proceedings. According to Judge Patricia Flores, all actions taken on Rios Montt's case since...

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News Turkish Parliament approves amendments to anti-terrorism legislation
Turkish Parliament approves amendments to anti-terrorism legislation
Sarah Paulsworth
April 12, 2013 10:49:10 am

Turkey's Grand National Assembly approved amendments to the country's anti-terrorism legislation on Thursday to bring the legislation more in line with EU freedom of expression standards. Through the amendments Turkey will narrow its...

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News Pakistan court overturns blasphemy conviction of man on death row
Pakistan court overturns blasphemy conviction of man on death row
Sarah Paulsworth
April 5, 2013 10:21:21 am

The Lahore High Court in Pakistan on Thursday acquitted a Christian man sentenced to death for blasphemy. Younis Masih has been in prison for six years. The charges against him stemmed from a incident in which allegedly...

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News Bosnia court sentences Montenegro paramilitary leader to 45 years
Bosnia court sentences Montenegro paramilitary leader to 45 years
Sarah Paulsworth
March 29, 2013 10:07:36 am

The war crimes court for Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday convicted a former paramilitary unit commander from Montenegro on multiple counts of murder, torture, rape and looting committed during the the civil war in the...

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News Former Pakistan leader Musharraf granted protective bail on eve of return
Former Pakistan leader Musharraf granted protective bail on eve of return
Sarah Paulsworth
March 22, 2013 11:22:15 am

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf was granted protective bail by the High Court of Sindh Karachi in Pakistan on Friday. AFP reports that Judge Sajjad Ali Shah set Musharraf's bail ...

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News Suspected DRC war criminal surrenders to ICC
Suspected DRC war criminal surrenders to ICC
Sarah Paulsworth
March 22, 2013 09:51:35 am

Congolese war crimes suspect Gen. Bosco Ntaganda voluntarily surrendered himself into the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday. The ICC is now in the process of transferring him to...

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News EU court rules Spain evictions violate consumer protection laws
EU court rules Spain evictions violate consumer protection laws
Sarah Paulsworth
March 14, 2013 12:38:48 pm

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that evictions carried out in Spain under harsh property repossession laws violate EU consumer protection laws. According to the ECJ, Spain's laws contravene EU laws [press...

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News Cambodia Khmer Rouge co-founder dies while on trial for war crimes
Cambodia Khmer Rouge co-founder dies while on trial for war crimes
Sarah Paulsworth
March 14, 2013 11:04:33 am

Khmer Rouge Deputy Foreign Minister and co-founder Ieng Sary , who was on trial for war crimes in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) for his involvement...

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News Bin Laden’s son-in-law captured, to be tried in New York
Bin Laden’s son-in-law captured, to be tried in New York
Sarah Paulsworth
March 8, 2013 08:13:12 am

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden , has been captured and will be appear in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday to face...

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News Bahrain female activist sentenced to 3 months in jail
Bahrain female activist sentenced to 3 months in jail
Sarah Paulsworth
March 1, 2013 11:20:07 am

A court of appeals in Bahrain overturned the acquittal of Zainab al-Khawaja, who is accused of insulting a government employee, and sentenced her to three months of imprisonment on Friday, according to the Bahrain State New Agency...

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Pope Innocent VIII authorizes Germany witchcraft prosecutions

Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus on December 5, 1484, authorizing Dominican friars and witch hunters Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger to prosecute witchcraft in Germany. The prosecutions would later give rise to the 1486 publication of Kramer and Sprenger's Malleus Malificarum ("Hammer of the Witches") which prescribed torture as a way to coerce confessions out of suspected witches. Historians view the text as having promoted a misogynistic witch craze in late medieval Europe. Read the full papal bull.

21st Amendment ended Prohibition

On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, ending the ban on the legal sale and importation of alcohol that had been introduced in 1919 by the 18th Amendment. Learn how the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers helped bring about Prohibition's repeal.

Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen

On December 5, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat broke off diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen in response to the Declaration of Tripoli, which imposed sanctions on Eygpt. These hardline Arab nations had promulgated the Declaration in order to punish Egypt for establishing diplomatic relations with Israel. In 1979, Egypt signed a formal peace treaty with Israel, leading to Sadat's assassination in 1981. Learn more from the BBC.

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