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News Unruly Saddam hanging prompts Sunni protests, American anger
Unruly Saddam hanging prompts Sunni protests, American anger
Bernard Hibbitts
January 1, 2007 09:29:00 am

The unruly nature of the weekend hanging of Saddam Hussein as especially revealed by a grainy but graphic camera phone video taken at the scene prompted protest and disavowal Monday as Sunnis condemned the treatment...

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News Australia military prosecutor slams treatment of Guantanamo detainee Hicks
Australia military prosecutor slams treatment of Guantanamo detainee Hicks
Bernard Hibbitts
January 1, 2007 08:56:00 am

Australia's new independent military prosecutor has called the treatment of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks "abominable" in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. Brigadier Lyn McDade told the Herald, "Quite frankly, I think...

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News Race riot put down at California state prison
Race riot put down at California state prison
Bernard Hibbitts
December 31, 2006 08:01:00 pm

The California state correctional facility in Chino was under lockdown Sunday after prison authorities put down a major race riot that broke out Saturday morning reportedly setting blacks and Hispanic inmates against each other in one of...

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News Saddam lawyer condemns execution as ‘aggressor’s injustice’
Saddam lawyer condemns execution as ‘aggressor’s injustice’
Bernard Hibbitts
December 29, 2006 10:32:00 pm

Saddam Hussein defense lawyer Curtis Doebbler, one of the two Americans on Hussein's Dujail trial team, has condemned the ousted Iraqi president's execution in a statement sent to JURIST only minutes after his client was hanged in...

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News US federal judge rejects Saddam bid for stay of execution
US federal judge rejects Saddam bid for stay of execution
Bernard Hibbitts
December 29, 2006 09:25:00 pm

A US federal judge has rejected an eleventh-hour bid by lawyers for Saddam Hussein seeking a direct stay of execution. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a 6-page ruling late Friday evening following a telephone conference with lawyers...

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News Saddam execution set for dawn in Iraq
Saddam execution set for dawn in Iraq
Bernard Hibbitts
December 29, 2006 08:54:00 pm

Iraqi officials have said that final preparations are underway for the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein before 6 AM local Baghdad time (10 PM Friday ET). Observers eligible to witness the execution have been told...

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News Appeals court rejects former judges’ detainee rights brief on naming technicality
Appeals court rejects former judges’ detainee rights brief on naming technicality
Bernard Hibbitts
December 29, 2006 04:46:00 pm

A three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected an amicus brief filed by seven retired judges who argued that portions of the new Military Commissions Act [JURIST news...

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News Iraqi judge says Saddam to be executed by Saturday
Iraqi judge says Saddam to be executed by Saturday
Bernard Hibbitts
December 29, 2006 02:12:00 pm

An Iraqi judge on the appeals bench of the Iraqi High Tribunal that earlier this week rejected Saddam Hussein's appeal of his November death sentence for crimes...

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News US asks Saddam lawyers to pick up effects as execution confusion continues
US asks Saddam lawyers to pick up effects as execution confusion continues
Bernard Hibbitts
December 29, 2006 11:02:00 am

The top Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Friday that US authorities have asked the defense team to pick up Hussein's personal belongings in preparation for a reportedly-imminent transfer of the ousted Iraqi...

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News Saddam lawyers reach across Atlantic in last-ditch bids to stop US handover
Saddam lawyers reach across Atlantic in last-ditch bids to stop US handover
Bernard Hibbitts
December 29, 2006 10:51:00 am

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein have reached across the Atlantic in last-ditch legal bids to stop US authorities from handing their client over to Iraqi officials for expected execution . On Wednesday, UK-based Saddam defense lawyer Giovanni di Stefano...

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Accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, put on trial in Israel

On February 16, 1987, accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, went on trial in Jerusalem, Israel. The prosecution claimed that Demjanjuk was a notorious prison guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka extermination camp during World War II. On this basis, Demjanjuk was convicted by the Israeli court of crimes against humanity. However, in August 1993, the conviction overturned by Israel's Supreme Court on a finding of reasonable doubt.

After the decision by the Supreme Court of Israel, Demjanjuk was returned to the United States, where he had been moved after World War II. On December 22, 2006, the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals ordered him deported to the Ukraine on a finding that he had been a guard at other Nazi concentration camps.

American feminist arrested for advocating birth control

On February 16, 1916, feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City for advocating birth control.

Learn more about Emma Goldman and her defense of reproductive rights from the University of California, Berkeley.

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