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News Croatian arrests, Serb verdict put Scorpions under pressure
Croatian arrests, Serb verdict put Scorpions under pressure
Kate Heneroty
June 17, 2005 01:00:00 pm

Croatia on Friday arrested 10 people suspected of committing war crimes against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. The arrests were made in eastern Croatia, an area with a large ethnic Serb population and where several former members of the...

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News Australia eases mandatory detention rules for illegal immigrants
Australia eases mandatory detention rules for illegal immigrants
Tom Henry
June 17, 2005 12:44:00 pm

To head off a revolt among members of his government over what are increasingly seen as unduly-harsh immigration laws, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has loosened rules for mandatory detention of immigrants who enter the country without...

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News Contractor alleges abuse during detention by US Marines in Iraq
Contractor alleges abuse during detention by US Marines in Iraq
Tom Henry
June 17, 2005 11:45:00 am

A private contractor for Zapata Engineering Peter Ginter - himself an ex-Marine with eight years service - has claimed he was abused by US military personnel while detained for three days. Gintner is the second to speak...

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News Former leaders urge transparency, fairness in Hussein trial
Former leaders urge transparency, fairness in Hussein trial
Krista-Ann Staley
June 17, 2005 11:25:00 am

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad , whose 22 years in office until 2003 made him one of Asia's longest-serving political leaders, Friday urged transparency and fairness in the trial of Saddam Hussein while announcing the launch of...

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News Teen who made school threats convicted under terror law
Teen who made school threats convicted under terror law
Tom Henry
June 17, 2005 11:20:00 am

Detroit high school student Andrew Osantowski has been convicted under a post 9/11 Michigan state anti-terror law of two counts of threatening terrorism against fellow students at his Chippewa Valley High School . The case could be the...

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News US Army charges staff sergeant with killing two superiors in Iraq
US Army charges staff sergeant with killing two superiors in Iraq
Tom Henry
June 17, 2005 10:50:00 am

The US Army Thursday charged staff sergeant Alberto B. Martinez of the New York National Guard 42nd Infantry with the murders of his two commanding officers at an army base near Baghdad. An initial military investigation concluded...

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News Sweden, Finland, Portugal put EU constitution ratifications on hold
Sweden, Finland, Portugal put EU constitution ratifications on hold
Krista-Ann Staley
June 17, 2005 10:42:00 am

Sweden, Finland and Portugal have joined Britain, Denmark, Ireland and the Czech Republic in postponing their ratifications of the EU constitution after European heads of governent Thursday agreed to extend the ratification deadline into 2007....

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News Federal judge in San Francisco upholds ban on gay marriage
Federal judge in San Francisco upholds ban on gay marriage
Tom Henry
June 17, 2005 09:21:00 am

In a rare federal case involving gay marriage, a US District Court judge on Thursday ruled that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act passed by Congress does not violate the Constitution. Judge Gary Taylor declined to rule on...

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News Senate Democrats balk at Bolton nomination again after memo hearing
Senate Democrats balk at Bolton nomination again after memo hearing
Krista-Ann Staley
June 17, 2005 09:07:00 am

Senate Democrats refused a Republican compromise over the nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN Thursday, demanding more information than GOP leadership offered on his pre-Iraq war assessments of several countries' weapons programs. Democrats...

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News Humanitarian aid groups to meet with Darfur war crimes prosecutor
Humanitarian aid groups to meet with Darfur war crimes prosecutor
Tom Henry
June 17, 2005 08:46:00 am

Prominent humanitarian aid groups are meeting Friday with International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, currently investigating war crimes in Darfur . The unusual meeting was called by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, US President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

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