JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that the execution of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity brought to a close a watershed year for international justice characterized by only tempered success… A trapdoor in Baghdad swung open on [...]

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Massachusetts lawmakers Tuesday pushed forward a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Sixty-two members of the Massachusetts legislature voted for the measure and 132 against on a second vote, putting it 12 votes over the 50 vote threshold it needed to stay alive for further consideration by the next legislative session, which can then put [...]

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Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock said Tuesday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will be among the first of the Guantanamo detainees to be brought to trial before new US military commissions. In a news conference , Ruddock said that US counterpart Alberto Gonzales had assured him that Hicks would be charged soon after [...]

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A government official in Nepal said Tuesday that the country's interim constitution will be promulgated by the middle of January when the requisite arms management process outlined in the Nepalese peace plan begins. Nepal's House of Representatives must first approve the interim constitution, which simultaneously provides for the creation of an interim parliament and the [...]

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The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki initiated an investigation Tuesday into the taping and distribution of a graphic camera phone video showing the actual Saturday execution of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the unruly process surrounding it. The video's release has already prompted protest from Sunnis. Iraqi officials said they also hope [...]

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Sunnis demonstrated in the streets of Iraq Monday in continuing opposition to the Saturday execution of Saddam Hussein , which was captured on camera phone video taken at the scene. Most notably, Sunni protestors in Samarra stormed into a damaged Shiite Mosque bearing a photograph of Hussein and a fake coffin. At a prison in [...]

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