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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has formally asked US President George Bush to hand over Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," and two other former members...

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An Iranian court has acquitted Hossein Mousavian, a former key nuclear negotiator, of espionage charges but convicted him of "propagating" against the Islamic government, judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said Tuesday. Mousavian was arrested in May on...

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Pakistani Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz apologized Tuesday for demanding that that all of the Supreme Court of Pakistan judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf when he declared emergency rule in early November vacate...

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The Pakistani government said Sunday that all of the Supreme Court of Pakistan judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf when he declared emergency rule in early November must vacate their government-provided accommodations by Friday and...

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Former Canadian Chief Justice Antonio Lamer , 74, passed away on Saturday of natural causes, the Globe & Mail reported Sunday. Lamer led the Supreme Court of Canada from 1990-2000, and served on the high court...

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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Tuesday held its first public hearing, considering the appeal of Kaing Guek Eav , better known as "Duch," against his eight-year pre-trial detention....

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Pakistani authorities have released more than 3400 lawyers and political activists detained in the aftermath of President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule , Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Igbal Cheema told AFP Tuesday, adding...

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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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