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News Thailand protesters petition for corruption charges over temple dispute
Thailand protesters petition for corruption charges over temple dispute
Devin Montgomery
July 14, 2008 12:02:00 pm

Protesters led by Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy petitioned the country's National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) Monday, asking it to bring new corruption charges against government officials and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC...

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Turkey indicts secularists for alleged coup plot
Devin Montgomery
July 14, 2008 08:25:00 am

Turkish prosecutors indicted 86 alleged members of the secular Ergenekon group Monday for allegedly attempting to destabilize and overthrow the country's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) . The group is believed responsible for bombing the...

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Singapore speaks out against criticism of its judiciary
Devin Montgomery
July 11, 2008 01:25:00 pm

Singapore's Ministry of Law Wednesday rejected claims by the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) that the country lacks an independent judiciary and fails to meet international standards of human rights. In its response...

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News Italy law granting immunity to officials passes in lower house
Italy law granting immunity to officials passes in lower house
Devin Montgomery
July 11, 2008 10:27:00 am

The Italian Chamber of Deputies , the country's lower house of parliament, approved legislation Thursday that would grant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and...

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Sarkozy calls on EU to resolve reform treaty dispute
Devin Montgomery
July 10, 2008 11:04:00 am

French President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday told the European Parliament that the European Union (EU) should quickly resolve conflicts over the proposed EU reform treaty , formally...

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Russia: ICTY should be closed due to bias
Devin Montgomery
July 10, 2008 08:45:00 am

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday said the recent acquittal of Bosnian Muslim war crimes suspect Naser Oric by the International Criminal Tribunal for...

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Israel police unresponsive to violence against Palistinians: rights group
Devin Montgomery
July 9, 2008 10:35:00 am

Israeli rights group Yesh Din published an update Tuesday to its 2006 report detailing the lack of investigations and prosecutions of Israeli settlers who commit crimes against Palestinians [JURIST news...

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US delaying payment to Guantanamo lawyers: ACLU
Devin Montgomery
July 9, 2008 08:31:00 am

The US government is preventing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from paying lawyers defending Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects on trial before US military commissions , ACLU director Anthony Romero said Tuesday. Lawyers for the...

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US-Czech missile defense pact prompts Russian warning of military response
Devin Montgomery
July 8, 2008 03:51:00 pm

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg Tuesday signed an agreement allowing the US to install ballistic missile radar systems in the Czech Republic, prompting an immediate Russian...

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Federal court refuses to interfere with US Forest Service logging plans
Devin Montgomery
July 8, 2008 01:32:00 pm

An en-banc panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday released a ruling granting broad deference to the National Forest Service (NFS) when making decisions regarding the impact of...

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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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