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News Bush calls Amnesty International rights report ‘absurd’
Bush calls Amnesty International rights report ‘absurd’
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 02:54:00 pm

In a White House press conference Tuesday US President George W. Bush slammed a report from rights group Amnesty International as "absurd" after the organization referred to US detention facilities abroad as an...

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News Sudan arrests second Dutch MSF aid worker over rape report
Sudan arrests second Dutch MSF aid worker over rape report
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 02:17:00 pm

The Sudanese government Tuesday arrested the Darfur coordinator for the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) , the second arrest of an MSF aid worker in two days. Vince Hoedt was detained over a March 2005 report...

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News Dutch officials seek last-minute support for EU constitution
Dutch officials seek last-minute support for EU constitution
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 01:46:00 pm

Government officials in the Netherlands are making a final plea to Dutch voters in an effort to persuade them to support the European constitution in a June 1 referendum, an uphill battle after voters in...

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News Iraq president expects Saddam Hussein trial within two months
Iraq president expects Saddam Hussein trial within two months
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 01:17:00 pm

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could face trial for war crimes within two months according to comments made Tuesday by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in a CNN interview. Talabani said that the Iraqi people...

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News Venezuela threatens retaliation after Supreme Court head’s US visa cancelled
Venezuela threatens retaliation after Supreme Court head’s US visa cancelled
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 12:45:00 pm

Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel has said US officials may not be welcome to visit Venezuela after the president of the Venezuelan Supreme Court Omar Mora had his tourist...

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Batasuna leader freed on bail in Madrid
Tom Henry
May 27, 2005 03:07:00 pm

Leader of the banned Batasuna party , the political wing of Basque separatist group ETA , Arnaldo Otegi was freed on bail Friday after two days in a Madrid prison. Otegi was freed after his lawyer put...

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News NY court rules mayor must face trial for performing gay marriages
NY court rules mayor must face trial for performing gay marriages
Tom Henry
May 27, 2005 02:03:00 pm

Mayor of New Paltz Jason West will face trial for attempting to marry same-sex couples last year, New York's highest court announced Friday. West faces 24 misdemeanor counts for violating the state's domestic relations law by marrying...

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Romania charges translator, businessman in Iraq kidnappings
Tom Henry
May 27, 2005 01:29:00 pm

Prosecutors in Romania on Friday charged translator Muhamed Munaf and Arab businessman Omar Hayssam with orchestrating the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists held for 55 days in Iraq. The two men were specifically charged with "initiating, funding...

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Congo denies detainee abuse allegations
Tom Henry
May 27, 2005 11:52:00 am

The Congolese government Friday denied allegations by Amnesty International that roughly 65 civilians were being detained and possibly tortured in the southeastern province of Katanga . The human rights organization said that the detainees were accused...

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French judge renews warrant for Pinochet arrest
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May 27, 2005 10:47:00 am

A judge in Paris investigating the disappearance of four French citizens during the dictatorial reign of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Chile has renewed arrest warrants for Pinochet and 18 other members of the Chilean military. The warrants...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi SS and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps. Read a biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted anti-Vietnam War bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution. Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts.

Trial of Marquess of Queensberry begins, leading to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde

On April 2, 1895, the libel trial of the Marquess of Queensberry began on allegations that he called Oscar Wilde a "posing somdomite [sic]". The trial led to the disclosure of details of Wilde's personal life that eventually resulted in his imprisonment for homosexuality. Read about the trials of Oscar Wilde.

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