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Colombia president restricts wiretapping following scandal
Christian Ehret
February 27, 2009 07:53:00 am

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday ">announced that the Department of Administrative Security (DAS) will no longer be able to conduct wiretapping operations with just a court...

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US Secretary of Homeland Security calls for review of workplace immigration raid
Christian Ehret
February 26, 2009 11:54:00 am

US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has called for a review of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace immigration raid that occurred in Bellingham, Washington on Tuesday. In a Wednesday...

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Russia journalist murder suspects acquitted
Christian Ehret
February 20, 2009 09:03:00 am

The Moscow Military District Court on Friday acquitted three men suspected of being involved in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The three men, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, were released  after a...

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Acquitted Yugoslavia ex-military officer sues Serbia over imprisonment
Christian Ehret
February 20, 2009 08:02:00 am

Former Yugoslav National Army officer Miroslav Radic on Wednesday sued Serbia for the four years and six months he was detained during his trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Radic...

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Iraq court postpones trial of shoe-throwing journalist
Christian Ehret
February 19, 2009 11:57:00 am

Judge Abdul-Amir al-Rubaie of the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) on Thursday postponed the trial of Muntadar al-Zaidi , the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoes at former US president...

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Europe rights court rules Russia illegally deported US missionary
Christian Ehret
February 16, 2009 10:49:00 am

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that the Russian government was guilty of infringing on US missionary Patrick Nolan's religious freedoms and other human rights by expelling...

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Christian Ehret
February 13, 2009 09:08:00 am

The credibility of the Khmer Rouge trials in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) are at risk from political corruption and interference, according to a report [text, DOC; press...

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Christian Ehret
February 13, 2009 07:49:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Thursday a petition for an en banc rehearing by convicted former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling . Skilling's petition followed a ruling [opinion, PDF;...

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Rights researcher denies receiving secret Afghanistan data from UK military officer
Christian Ehret
February 6, 2009 09:23:00 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher Rachael Reid responded Friday to media accusations that she received secret information from British officer Lt. Col. Owen McNally, arrested this week on suspicion of leaking secret information...

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February 6, 2009 08:00:00 am

 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that Bush administration immigration enforcement tactics were both overly-aggressive and ineffective, the Cardozo School...

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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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