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July 11, 2007 03:06:00 pm

A Chilean judge rejected a request by Peru Wednesday seeking the extradition of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori , who has been charged in his former country with corruption...

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Iran has opened an investigation into the judge who ordered the stoning execution of a man convicted of adultery , the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported Wednesday. According to ISNA, an unnamed judicial...

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Gabriel Haboubi
July 11, 2007 01:15:00 pm

The Rwandan senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty , according to Wednesday reports by Radio Rwanda. The bill, proposed last year by Rwandan President Paul Kagame with the support...

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A lawyer for US Army Spc. Mario Lozano , who is being tried in absentia for the murder of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari and attempted murders of agent...

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July 10, 2007 01:54:00 pm

The Serbian Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the 40 year prison sentence of Milorad Ulemek , according to Belgrade media reports. Ulemek was a paramilitary commander under Slobodan Milosevic who...

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July 10, 2007 01:16:00 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Tuesday condemned the recent execution by stoning of an Iranian man convicted of adultery, saying the execution was in violation of international law . As a party to...

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Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba Monday challenged the $58 million (USD) fine imposed upon him last month by a London judge, asking a Zambian court to throw out the fine because the UK...

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July 9, 2007 03:23:00 pm

The government of Zimbabwe has arrested more than 1300 shop owners and managers who refused to comply with price controls imposed more than two weeks ago , according to Monday police reports. On June 26,...

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July 9, 2007 02:10:00 pm

The constitutional scholars who drafted the interim Palestinian constitution spoke out against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Monday, saying that although Abbas had the right to dismiss former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh [BBC...

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US suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of American suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

Catholic Church tries Galileo for heresy

On September 20, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was brought before the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith for his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest.
Read documents from the trial of Galileo.

Suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

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