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News Uganda government reaches war crimes court agreement with LRA rebels
Uganda government reaches war crimes court agreement with LRA rebels
Caitlin Price
February 19, 2008 02:59:00 pm

The government of Uganda has reached an agreement with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to establish a war crimes court to prosecute crimes against humanity committed during Uganda's civil war [BBC...

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News Ex-Yukos lawyer decries harsh conditions after court-ordered transfer to hospital
Ex-Yukos lawyer decries harsh conditions after court-ordered transfer to hospital
Caitlin Price
February 18, 2008 02:23:00 pm

Incarcerated former Yukos executive and lawyer Vasily Aleksanian has been kept chained to his bed since his transfer to a Moscow hospital for medical treatment earlier this month, his lawyer said Monday. Aleksanian...

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News US, major EU states recognize independent Kosovo
US, major EU states recognize independent Kosovo
Caitlin Price
February 18, 2008 01:03:00 pm

The United States and several key European Union powers formally recognized Kosovo as a sovereign state Monday, one day after the Assembly of Kosovo unilaterally declared Kosovo's independence from Serbia. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...

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News Senate limits debate on surveillance bill granting telecoms immunity
Senate limits debate on surveillance bill granting telecoms immunity
Caitlin Price
February 12, 2008 03:35:00 pm

The US Senate voted 69-29 Tuesday in favor of a cloture motion limiting further debate on a bill which would provide immunity for telecommunications companies from lawsuits related to their...

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News ICTR defense investigator pleads not guilty in witness bribing case
ICTR defense investigator pleads not guilty in witness bribing case
Caitlin Price
February 12, 2008 12:54:00 pm

Rwandan defense investigator Leonidas Nshogoza pleaded not guilty Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to charges of contempt and attempted contempt of the ICTR. Nshogoza was arrested in June 2007 for...

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News Khodorkovsky ends hunger strike as ex-Yukos lawyer transferred to hospital
Khodorkovsky ends hunger strike as ex-Yukos lawyer transferred to hospital
Caitlin Price
February 11, 2008 02:23:00 pm

Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky ended a nearly two-week long hunger strike Monday as former Yukos executive and lawyer Vasily Aleksanian was confirmed to have been transferred to...

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News Estonia signs agreement to offer prisons to ICTY convicts
Estonia signs agreement to offer prisons to ICTY convicts
Caitlin Price
February 11, 2008 01:56:00 pm

Estonia has signed an enforcement of sentences agreement with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to allow ICTY convicts to be held in Estonian prisons, the ICTY announced [press...

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News Ngudjolo Chui makes first appearance at ICC on DR Congo war crimes charges
Ngudjolo Chui makes first appearance at ICC on DR Congo war crimes charges
Caitlin Price
February 11, 2008 01:07:00 pm

Former Congolese Nationalist and Integrationist Front leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui on Monday appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague for the first time. The public hearing allowed judges to verify Ngudjolo Chui's...

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CIA chief confirms use of waterboarding on 3 terror detainees
Caitlin Price
February 5, 2008 02:27:00 pm

The CIA has used waterboarding "on only three detainees" since September 11, 2001, CIA Director Michael Hayden told the US Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday. Stipulating that the interrogation technique has not been...

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News Bush to veto surveillance bill without telecom immunity: Mukasey letter
Bush to veto surveillance bill without telecom immunity: Mukasey letter
Caitlin Price
February 5, 2008 01:39:00 pm

US President George W. Bush will veto any terror surveillance legislation passed by Congress that does not include liability protection for telecom companies, a letter from Attorney General Michael Mukasey and National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell warned Congress Tuesday,...

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Georgia became first US state to ban lynching

On December 20, 1893, Georgia became the first state in the Union to pass a law against lynching, making the act punishable by four years in prison.

The statute was not particularly effective - read the text of the 1899 pamphlet Lynch Law in Georgia by anti-lynching activist Ida Wells-Barnett.

UN Drug Trafficking Convention signed

On December 20, 1988, the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The treaty provides mechanisms for international coordination in preventing the manufacture and distribution of drugs worldwide. Over 170 countries have signed the treaty to date.

Learn more about the treaty from the UN.

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