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Bosnia war crimes prosecutor arrests four suspected of crimes against humanity
Caitlin Price
October 14, 2008 11:57:00 am

Four former Bosnian Serb officers have been arrested on suspicions of crimes against humanity in connection with the August 1992 massacre of 200 civilians in Koricanske Stijene, the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia &...

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Ban rejects UN Hariri-style probe of Bhutto assassination
Caitlin Price
October 8, 2008 11:20:00 am

The United Nations will not open an investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told reporters Tuesday. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari [official...

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Mexico extradites former Guatemala president to face corruption charges
Caitlin Price
October 8, 2008 09:56:00 am

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited Tuesday from Mexico to Guatemala, where he is accused of authorizing transfers of $15.8 million from the budget of the Guatemalan Ministry of Defense during his presidency from...

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Palestinians sue Israel for West Bank land rights damages
Caitlin Price
October 7, 2008 12:18:00 pm

Five Palestinians represented by Israeli rights group Yesh Din filed suit against the State of Israel seeking $427,000 in damages for failing to protect Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank from trespassers and...

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Russia seeks UK extradition of former oil chief charged with tax evasion
Caitlin Price
October 7, 2008 10:58:00 am

Russian authorities have asked Britain to extradite former Russneft oil company head Mikhail Gutseriyev, according to a Russian Ministry of the Interior spokesman Monday. Citing systematic government 'persecution' , Gutseriyev resigned ...

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Canada commission to go ahead with public hearing on Afghan detainee transfers
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October 1, 2008 11:27:00 am

The Canadian Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC) decided Tuesday to move forward with a public hearing investigating the country's military detainee transfer process in Afghanistan despite a move from the Canadian Department of Justice [official...

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Medvedev promotes Russia anti-corruption package
Caitlin Price
October 1, 2008 09:57:00 am

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday pushed for the adoption of sweeping anti-graft legislation while opening the first meeting of the newly-established Anti-Corruption Council . Deflecting rumors that the...

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Vietnam journalists charged with ‘abusing freedom and democracy’
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October 1, 2008 06:32:00 am

Vietnamese journalists Nguyen Van Hai of Tuoi Tre news agency and Nguyen Viet Chien of Thanh Nien news agency have been charged with "abusing freedom and democracy" and will face up to seven...

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Former Gurkha soldiers win court challenge to UK immigration policy
Caitlin Price
September 30, 2008 12:57:00 pm

London's High Court of Justice on Tuesday struck down an immigration policy that has prevented thousands of retired Nepalese members of the British Army from remaining in the UK. Earlier this month, five former members of...

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September 24, 2008 11:17:00 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday entered a not guilty plea and ordered a psychiatric evaluation in the trial of Aafia Siddiqui , a Pakistani woman...

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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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