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Libya death row medics given more time to defend slander charges
Caitlin Price
March 11, 2007 03:17:00 pm

A Libyan court Sunday granted the defense team for six foreign medics accused of slandering police agents an additional two weeks to prepare for trial. Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death...

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Afghanistan president signs war crimes amnesty bill into law
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March 11, 2007 02:32:00 pm

A revised version of a controversial bill granting amnesty to groups that allegedly committed war crimes was signed into law Saturday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai after being approved ...

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Kurd party leaders imprisoned in Turkey for distributing Kurdish language material
Caitlin Price
February 26, 2007 08:03:00 pm

Two high-ranking Kurdish politicians were each sentenced to a year and a half in prison Monday by a Turkish court for distributing Kurdish-language party materials praising imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan . Ahmet Turk and Aysel Tugluk,...

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Supreme Court hears arguments in deadly force, tax refund cases
Caitlin Price
February 26, 2007 06:49:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Scott v. Harris , 05-1631 , where the court must decide whether a police officer violated a fleeing...

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Egypt cleric claims CIA torture in 2003 rendition from Italy
Caitlin Price
February 25, 2007 04:21:00 pm

Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr said in a live television interview with Al Jazeera Sunday that he was "savagely tortured by the CIA when kidnapped" and taken...

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Hicks lawyer suing Australian government for failure to protect
Caitlin Price
February 25, 2007 03:51:00 pm

Lawyers for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks are filing a claim Monday in the Federal Court of Australia in an attempt to secure Hicks' release. Hicks' Australian defense team, headed...

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Bangladesh corruption trials to begin next month
Caitlin Price
February 25, 2007 03:17:00 pm

Seven more high-profile persons suspected of corruption were arrested in Bangladesh Sunday as government officials announced that trials will begin in March as part of the nation's move to curb the problem. Last week Bangladeshi authorities...

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US lawmakers seek recognition for Latin American Japanese interned in WWII camps
Caitlin Price
February 19, 2007 07:53:00 pm

Two US Congressmen Monday pressed their case for legislation investigating the treatment of 2,300 Japanese descendants from 13 Latin American countries held in US internment camps during World War II. Bill sponsors Reps. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) and Dan Lungren...

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Caitlin Price
February 19, 2007 07:02:00 pm

The lead judge in the mass trial of suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings asked the Spanish government Monday to declassify documents allegedly linking a defendant to the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)...

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February 18, 2007 03:47:00 pm

Police in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare ignored a court order and interfered with a political rally held by opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Sunday. According to an MDC spokesman, police arrested members...

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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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