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Vietnam human rights lawyer arrested for subversion
Christian Ehret
June 15, 2009 08:35:00 am

Prominent Vietnamese pro-democracy lawyer Le Cong Dinh was arrested Saturday by Vietnam forces for allegedly conspiring against the government, according to state media. Dinh was charged with "colluding with foreign reactionaries to sabotage the Vietnamese State,"...

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DOJ seeks state secrets case rehearing
Christian Ehret
June 12, 2009 03:40:00 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a brief Friday to petition the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to rehear a state secrets privilege case en banc....

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Christian Ehret
June 12, 2009 02:27:00 pm

The US House of Representatives on Friday approved the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act , which attempts to safeguard the public by granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certain authority...

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Bosnia court sentences former army commander for 1995 shelling
Christian Ehret
June 12, 2009 12:25:00 pm

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday sentenced a former Bosnian Serb army commander to 25 years imprisonment for ordering an attack that killed 71 and wounded 150. Novak Djukic was charged ...

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Christian Ehret
June 12, 2009 11:46:00 am

The Myanmar court conducting the trial of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi has delayed the proceedings for at least two weeks, according to Friday media reports. Suu Kyi's lawyers requested the delay [AP...

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Christian Ehret
June 12, 2009 10:21:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the US government can continue to withhold photos of alleged detainee abuse while it awaits a response from the US Supreme Court . The...

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June 12, 2009 08:29:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Thursday denied bail to Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black , leaving him the option of filing a request in district court. The one-page denial was issued...

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A South Korean court ruled Thursday that Microsoft violated antitrust regulations by packaging software with the Windows operating system, but dismissed requests for damages from two Korean software firms. The suit alleged that the...

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Christian Ehret
June 11, 2009 01:29:00 pm

The European Union Court of First Instance ruled Thursday that an EU-ordered asset freeze of a Jordanian terrorist suspect lacked judicial review, violating the suspect's fundamental rights. The assets of Muslim cleric Abu Qatada [BBC...

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Kenya has until the end of August to establish a tribunal to try the leaders behind the 2007 post-election violence , former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan told the BBC Thursday. If the country does not...

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US suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of American suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

Catholic Church tries Galileo for heresy

On September 20, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was brought before the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith for his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest.
Read documents from the trial of Galileo.

Suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

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