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News Border rule would fingerprint lawful US permanent residents
Border rule would fingerprint lawful US permanent residents
Bernard Hibbitts
July 28, 2006 08:30:00 am

A new US federal regulation announced by the Department of Homeland Security Thursday and published in the Federal Register would for the first time require biometric fingerprinting and photographing of lawful permanent US residents - so called "green...

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News Presidential signing statements report [ABA]
Presidential signing statements report [ABA]
Bernard Hibbitts
July 24, 2006 11:46:00 am

Report, Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine, American Bar Association, July 24, 2006 [finding that President Bush's practice of attaching signing statements to new laws undermines the rule of law and the constitutional system...

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News US Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq [HRW]
US Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq [HRW]
Bernard Hibbitts
July 23, 2006 11:18:00 pm

"No Blood, No Foul:" Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Human Rights Watch, July 23, 2006 [finding on the basis of interviews with US soldiers that US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices and...

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News UN humanitarian chief touring Beirut says excessive force violates international law
UN humanitarian chief touring Beirut says excessive force violates international law
Bernard Hibbitts
July 23, 2006 11:31:00 am

Touring south Beirut Sunday, United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland said the damage to civilian areas caused by Israeli airstrikes was worse than he had anticipated and reemphasized that attacking civilians...

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News US commanders authorized widespread abuse of Iraqi detainees: HRW report
US commanders authorized widespread abuse of Iraqi detainees: HRW report
Bernard Hibbitts
July 23, 2006 10:59:00 am

US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices even in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal , and military lawyers brought in to brief interrogators erroneously told them that the Geneva Conventions...

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News Saddam hospitalized for tube feeding after hunger strike makes health ‘unstable’
Saddam hospitalized for tube feeding after hunger strike makes health ‘unstable’
Bernard Hibbitts
July 23, 2006 10:28:00 am

Saddam Hussein has been hospitalized and is being fed through a tube after a hunger strike now into its third week rendered his health "unstable," according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi court currently trying...

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News Former Russian nuclear minister freed to await fraud trial
Former Russian nuclear minister freed to await fraud trial
Bernard Hibbitts
July 23, 2006 10:09:00 am

The Russian Supreme Court Friday ordered the release of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov pending trial for allegedly diverting funds equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars to his personal use and...

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News Charges dropped against US soldier accused of killing Iraqi civilian
Charges dropped against US soldier accused of killing Iraqi civilian
Bernard Hibbitts
July 23, 2006 09:19:00 am

Charges have been dropped against a Pennsylvania National Guardsman accused in the February 15 shooting death of an Iraqi civilian near a US military base at Ramadi , a city west of Baghdad. Prosecutors recommended...

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News Israel assailed for international law breaches at UN Mideast crisis meeting
Israel assailed for international law breaches at UN Mideast crisis meeting
Bernard Hibbitts
July 21, 2006 09:15:00 pm

Israel found itself on the defensive with the United States as its most vocal ally in a Friday UN Security Council open meeting in which ambassadors from the Arab world and beyond condemned it for breaching international...

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News Rejection of DOJ motion to dismiss telecom surveillance lawsuit [US DC]
Rejection of DOJ motion to dismiss telecom surveillance lawsuit [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts
July 20, 2006 11:24:00 pm

Tash Hepting et al. v. AT&T et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of California, US District Judge Vaughn Walker, July 20, 2006 [rejecting a US Department of Justice motion to dismiss on state secrets grounds a...

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Anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died in police custody

On September 12, 1977, South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died in police custody after having suffered a massive head injury during interrogation following his arrest. The story of journalist Donald Woods' investigation into the circumstances of Biko's death was the basis of the 1987 film Cry Freedom.

Read an address on Stephen Biko delivered by then-South African President Nelson Mandela on the 20th anniversary of Biko's death in 1997.

Supreme Court unanimously rejects state challenge Brown v. Board of Education

On September 12, 1958, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a state government challenge to Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which had overturned segregation. In Cooper vs. Aaron, the State Government of Arkansas challenged the authority of the Court to implement desegregation. The Court responded by forcefully re-asserting its authority and the authority of the federal government over the states.

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