In the latest string of judgments against Russia, the European Court of Human Rights Thursday held the country responsible for the deaths and disappearance of three people in Chechnya . In the first case , the body of Nura Luluyeva, a nurse who disappeared in 2000, was found in a mass grave a year later [...]
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The president of Burundi admitted Thursday that instances of torture and brutality by police and members of the military do sometimes occur in the country, but told reporters in Paris that the perpetrators of those ‘isolated’ incidents are arrested approximately 85% of the time. President Pierre Nkurunziza was responding to new allegations by Amnesty International [...]
The US Army announced Thursday that it will push forward with a court martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada , an Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq and openly protested the war as ‘unlawful’. Fort Lewis commander Lt. Gen. James Dubik followed an investigating officer’s recommendation to go to court-martial, forwarding charges of missing [...]
Environmental extremists in Oregon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and arson on Thursday for their roles in a streak of environmentally motivated arsons by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) over the course of five years. US federal prosecutors said they would ask for a five year sentence for one of [...]
David G. Evans, Esq. : "The Colorado marijuana initiative would have made it legal for anyone over 21 years of age to possess one ounce or less of marijuana. According to law enforcement, one ounce of marijuana is equal to 56-84 joints, depending upon size of joint. This large quantity, which the proponents of the [...]
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced Thursday that a coalition of US and international human rights groups plan to file a war crimes lawsuit against outgoing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld after his resignation Wednesday. Rumsfeld enjoys statutory immunity in the United States and so CCR, the National Lawyers Guild, the [...]
Argentina federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral on Thursday authorized the arrest of former Iran President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other Iranian officials for their alleged roles the AMIA Jewish cultural center bombing that killed 85 people and wounded over 200 more in Buenos Aries in 1994. Prosecutors claim that Iranian officials authorized the bombing [...]
Allen St. Pierre : "The 2006 mid-term elections offered mixed results for marijuana law reformers, with voters rejecting three statewide liberalization efforts, but approving numerous local measures to 'deprioritize' pot law enforcement. Regarding the three failed statewide initiative efforts: These outcomes, while disappointing, were not unexpected. Despite these results, adults in both Colorado and Nevada [...]
Steve Fox : "The purpose of the Amendment 44 campaign in Colorado was to stimulate a debate in the state about the rationality of laws that allow adults to use alcohol while prohibiting the use of marijuana. Specifically, the Amendment 44 campaign framed all of its arguments so that the listening public would be educated [...]
William B. Neaves, Ph.D. : "The Stowers Institute is pleased that a majority of citizens voted for the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative on Tuesday. Our attention will now be directed toward further recruitment of the world's leading scientists to the Stowers Institute, including stem cell researchers. The support shown by the voters [...]
