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ICC chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for Darfur rebel leaders
Andrew Gilmore
November 15, 2008 04:17:00 pm

Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday at a meeting of states party to the ICC treaty that he would seek arrest warrants for the leaders of rebel...

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November 13, 2008 07:40:00 am

The South African Constitutional Court Wednesday refused to hear an appeal brought by former president Thabo Mbeki of a lower court ruling that dismissed corruption charges against his rival, African National Congress...

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Ousted Fiji PM appealing High Court dismissal of 2006 coup challenge
Andrew Gilmore
November 12, 2008 03:42:00 pm

Former Fijian prime minister Laisenia Qarase said Wednesday that he will seek an appeal of an October decision by the Fijian High Court dismissing his challenge to the country's 2006 coup. In...

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Former Bangladesh government ministers detained since 2007 released on bail
Andrew Gilmore
November 12, 2008 10:29:00 am

Two former Bangladeshi cabinet members, including a former interior minister, were released on bail Tuesday, after being arrested in 2007 for alleged involvement in a corruption scandal. The two, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Altaf Hossain Choudhury, were...

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South Korea forms rights committee to investigate alleged North Korea abuses
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November 12, 2008 09:17:00 am

The South Korean government Tuesday established a committee of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) to investigate alleged human rights abuses in North Korea. The formation of the new committee is expected to become a...

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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Negusie v. Mukasey , the Court will consider whether the so-called "persecutor bar" in...

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November 5, 2008 03:51:00 pm

Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic refused to answer questions at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday about war crimes committed during the 1994 Yugoslav civil war...

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November 4, 2008 02:25:00 pm

Iraqi Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi , one of two Iraqi vice presidents, called Tuesday for a national referendum on a proposed US-Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) . The agreement, which has been the...

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November 4, 2008 12:11:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday reinstated a water pollution lawsuit brought by survivors of the Bhopal disaster against US chemical producer Union Carbide . The litigation...

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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 S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar 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. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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