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News Supreme Court to hear First Amendment challenge
Supreme Court to hear First Amendment challenge
Alexis Unkovic
December 1, 2006 03:23:00 pm

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases Friday, most notably Morse v. Frederick (06-278) , which addresses whether a school board had the right to suspend a then-high school...

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News Hunger-striking Serb war crimes defendant hospitalized
Hunger-striking Serb war crimes defendant hospitalized
Alexis Unkovic
November 29, 2006 07:17:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) decided Wednesday to move Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj to a hospital unit adjoining its detention center at Scheveningen...

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News Federal judge orders FEMA to resume Katrina housing payments
Federal judge orders FEMA to resume Katrina housing payments
Alexis Unkovic
November 29, 2006 06:07:00 pm

US District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled in Washington, DC, Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must reinstate certain housing payments for victims of Hurricane Katrina ....

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News US frees last Guantanamo detainees deemed not enemy combatants
US frees last Guantanamo detainees deemed not enemy combatants
Alexis Unkovic
November 18, 2006 01:40:00 pm

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that it had released three detainees from Guantanamo Bay who Combatant Status Review Tribunals had determined not to be enemy combatants [JURIST...

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News ICTY transfers first war crimes case to Serbia
ICTY transfers first war crimes case to Serbia
Alexis Unkovic
November 17, 2006 04:37:00 pm

The Referral Bench of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled Friday that the case of former Serbian commander Vladimir Kovacevic should be transferred to Serbia...

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Federal judge denies detainee access to civilian legal counsel
Alexis Unkovic
November 17, 2006 03:40:00 pm

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday in support of a bid by the US Department of Justice to bar terrorism suspect Majid Khan from access to a civilian lawyer unless and...

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Netherlands government to push for Muslim burqa ban
Alexis Unkovic
November 10, 2006 05:28:00 pm

The Netherlands cabinet announced plans Friday to press for a ban on the wearing of the full-length Muslim burqa and the niqab , the Muslim headscarf for women that leaves only the eyes visible. Dutch Immigration...

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News Rwanda nun found guilty in genocide case
Rwanda nun found guilty in genocide case
Alexis Unkovic
November 10, 2006 04:25:00 pm

A Rwandan community court convicted a Catholic nun of genocide charges Friday for assisting in the Hutumassacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The nun, Theopister Mukakibibi, reportedly aided Hutu extremist groups and facilitated...

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News Italy prosecutors introduce new abuse evidence in CIA kidnapping probe
Italy prosecutors introduce new abuse evidence in CIA kidnapping probe
Alexis Unkovic
November 10, 2006 03:42:00 pm

Italian prosecutors have reportedly added an 11-page handwritten note to their compilation of evidence in the case of the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Italy. In...

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Saddam genocide trial adjourned for three weeks
Alexis Unkovic
November 8, 2006 07:55:00 pm

The genocide trial of Saddam Hussein for allegedly killing 100,000 Kurds in the "Anfal" campaigns in the late 1980s was adjourned Wednesday just one day after it had resumed ....

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying

On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

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Lockerbie bombers turned over for trial

On April 5, 1999, the government of Libya turned over to British authorities two of its citizens who were accused of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. The subsequent trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah began on May 3, 2000. When the court reached its verdict, Fhimah was found not guilty and returned to Libya, while Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

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