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News ‘Iraqi agent’ sentenced to 13 years in prison
‘Iraqi agent’ sentenced to 13 years in prison
Bernard Hibbitts
May 27, 2006 11:54:00 am

A federal judge in Indianapolis sentenced an Indiana truck driver to 160 months in prison Friday for acting as an unregistered foreign agent and violating sanctions against Iraq. Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, a Soviet-educated Palestinian Ph.D. who speaks...

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News UK parliament rights panel assails Blair stance on deportation to torture states
UK parliament rights panel assails Blair stance on deportation to torture states
Bernard Hibbitts
May 26, 2006 10:16:00 am

The UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights took the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair to task Friday for urging the European Court of Human Rights to revisit its absolute prohibition against...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Senate confirms Hayden as new CIA chief
BREAKING NEWS ~ Senate confirms Hayden as new CIA chief
Bernard Hibbitts
May 26, 2006 09:57:00 am

The full US Senate has approved the nomination of Air Force General Michael Hayden to head the Central Intelligence Agency by a vote of 78-15 . Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) was...

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News UK Iraq war legal advice disclosure called inadequate
UK Iraq war legal advice disclosure called inadequate
Bernard Hibbitts
May 26, 2006 08:01:00 am

In the wake of Thursday's release by UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith of a disclosure statement outlining his actions in rendering advice on the legality of the Iraq war to the government of Prime...

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News Afghan rights commission says 34 civilians killed in US airstrike
Afghan rights commission says 34 civilians killed in US airstrike
Bernard Hibbitts
May 26, 2006 07:37:00 am

A spokesman for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kandahar said Friday that some 34 Afghan civilians were killed in a US airstrike on a village in the south of the country earlier this week along...

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News Jefferson congressional office search warrant [US DC]
Jefferson congressional office search warrant [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts
May 25, 2006 01:01:00 pm

In the Matter of the Search of Rayburn House Office Building Room 2113, Washington DC, US District Court for the District of Columbia, May 21, 2006 [search warrant and supporting materials for FBI search of the congressional office of US...

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News National Security Letter speech ban ruling [2nd Circuit]
National Security Letter speech ban ruling [2nd Circuit]
Bernard Hibbitts
May 24, 2006 08:40:00 pm

John Doe I et al. v. Alberto Gonzales et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, May 24, 2006 [remanding a case involving a permanent government ban on speech when an individual receives a National Security Letter...

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News Saddam Hussein charges [Iraq HT]
Saddam Hussein charges [Iraq HT]
Bernard Hibbitts
May 24, 2006 10:53:00 am

Saddam Hussein Accusation Document, Republic of Iraq, Iraqi High Tribunal, Office of the Head of the First Criminal Court, May 15, 2006 [charging Saddam with murder, torture and illegally arresting 399 people in Dujail as part of a crackdown in...

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Katrina oil price manipulation report [FTC]
Bernard Hibbitts
May 22, 2006 11:26:00 pm

Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Insrease, Federal Trade Commission, May 22, 2006 . Read the...

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News Rwanda-Norway genocide case transfer ruling [ICTR]
Rwanda-Norway genocide case transfer ruling [ICTR]
Bernard Hibbitts
May 22, 2006 10:37:00 pm

The Prosecutor v. Michel Bagaragaza, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, May 22, 2006 . Read...

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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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