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Austria denounced as ‘paradise for Nazi war criminals’
Angela A. Onikepe
February 2, 2006 02:55:00 am

Following a meeting Wednesday with Austrian Interior and Justice ministers, Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized Austria for being complacent in investigating and prosecuting suspects involved in Nazi war crimes, saying that the...

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Putin says new NGO law aimed against ‘puppeteers abroad’
Angela A. Onikepe
February 1, 2006 05:04:00 am

At his annual news conference Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin defended a new Russian law restricting the activities of domestic and foreign-based non-governmental organizations - including a number of international...

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Trial set for London bombing suspects
Angela A. Onikepe
December 9, 2005 01:48:00 am

The trial of the five main suspects in the failed July 21 London bombings will begin in September 2006. The five Londoners, Hussein Osman, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, and Ramzi Mohamed,...

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News French airports ‘apparently not’ used by CIA, says French minister
French airports ‘apparently not’ used by CIA, says French minister
Angela A. Onikepe
December 8, 2005 04:48:00 am

French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has stated that contrary to press reports, French airports were 'apparently not' used by CIA 'ghost flights' allegedly moving US detainees around the world where they might have been...

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French judges rule against deportation of accused rioter
Angela A. Onikepe
December 8, 2005 04:36:00 am

French judges ruled Wednesday against the deportation of a 21-year old Mauritanian man accused of participating in the suburban riots that broke out across France last month. The regional court in Pontoise , a town...

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Dutch foreign minister calls Rice rendition assurances ‘unsatisfactory’
Angela A. Onikepe
December 7, 2005 03:16:00 am

Addressing the Dutch Parliament Tuesday, Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot called assurances by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the US does not conduct renditions for torture "unsatisfactory." The Netherlands has been reported...

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French judiciary leak may have accelerated Belgian anti-terror raids
Angela A. Onikepe
December 2, 2005 04:17:00 am

Belgium Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx said Thursday that Belgian anti-terror raids held Tuesday night, which resulted in 15 arrests , were accelerated in order to stem the effects of a leak reported [RTL report, in...

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EU justice ministers approve anti-terror plan
Angela A. Onikepe
December 2, 2005 02:06:00 am

European Union justice and security ministers announced the adoption of a new anti-terror strategy and action plan at an EU Council meeting in Brussels Thursday. The UK-sponsored proposal is intended to fight radicalization and...

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Arrests made in probe of Belgian suicide bomber in Iraq
Angela A. Onikepe
December 1, 2005 05:29:00 am

Authorities in France and Belgium have arrested fifteen suspects connected with a suicide bombing attack in Iraq on November 9 carried out by a woman who has been confirmed as a Belgian national married to an...

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UK court hears Enron extradition appeal
Angela A. Onikepe
December 1, 2005 04:34:00 am

A UK High Court has heard an extradition appeal by three British men charged in connection with the Enron scandal challenging the validity of the British government's approval of a US extradition request ....

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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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