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News Fujimori pleads not guilty in Peru rights abuse trial
Fujimori pleads not guilty in Peru rights abuse trial
Leslie Schulman
December 10, 2007 04:30:00 pm

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of human rights abuses for allegedly ordering the 1992 murder of 25 people, including a professor and nine students at the so-called La...

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News Iraq considers plan to pardon thousands of detainees linked to insurgency
Iraq considers plan to pardon thousands of detainees linked to insurgency
Leslie Schulman
December 10, 2007 03:42:00 pm

The Iraqi government is mulling pardons for several thousand convicted insurgents, Iraqi government officials said Monday. A committee is being formed to draw up guidelines for issuing the pardons, including which offenses would be eligible for pardons and whether...

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News Conrad Black sentenced to prison, ordered to pay $1 million
Conrad Black sentenced to prison, ordered to pay $1 million
Leslie Schulman
December 10, 2007 02:54:00 pm

Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black was sentenced in a US federal court in Chicago Monday to 78 months in prison and ordered to pay $125,000 and forfeit another $1 million for...

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News Chile high court affirms Pinochet family embezzlement indictment dismissal
Chile high court affirms Pinochet family embezzlement indictment dismissal
Leslie Schulman
November 22, 2007 04:05:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Chile on Wednesday upheld an appeals court decision to drop embezzlement charges brought against the widow and five sons of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet . The...

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News UN committee concerned about Belarus rights violations
UN committee concerned about Belarus rights violations
Leslie Schulman
November 22, 2007 03:05:00 pm

The UN General Assembly Third Committee Wednesday approved a draft resolution imploring the government of Belarus to uphold its "obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil...

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News Hamas financing suspect sentenced to prison for refusing to testify
Hamas financing suspect sentenced to prison for refusing to testify
Leslie Schulman
November 22, 2007 02:40:00 pm

Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a former associate professor of business at Howard University in Washington DC who was one of three men indicted in 2004 by a US federal grand jury on charges of engaging in a 15-year conspiracy...

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Federal judge orders White House to preserve e-mails
Leslie Schulman
November 12, 2007 06:12:00 pm

The White House must preserve all of its e-mail records by saving back-up disks, United States District Court Judge Henry Kennedy ordered Monday. The order was a blow to the Bush administration, which has been...

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News Pakistan lawyers return to some lower courts after emergency boycott
Pakistan lawyers return to some lower courts after emergency boycott
Leslie Schulman
November 12, 2007 03:55:00 pm

Pakistani lawyers began returning to work in some of the country's lower courts Monday, one week after thousands of lawyers and law students protested against President Pervez Musharraf's proclamation of emergency rule , suspension of the constitution and...

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News Israel to release 400 Palestinian detainees in lead-up to peace talks
Israel to release 400 Palestinian detainees in lead-up to peace talks
Leslie Schulman
November 12, 2007 03:30:00 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told parliament Monday that the government was planning to release 400 more Palestinian prisoners later this month, adding to the release last month of more than 80 Palestinian prisoners. The...

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News Indonesia lawyers fail to reach settlement in civil land fraud suit against Suharto son
Indonesia lawyers fail to reach settlement in civil land fraud suit against Suharto son
Leslie Schulman
November 12, 2007 03:05:00 pm

Indonesian prosecutors on Monday announced the breakdown of court-ordered settlement negotiations with lawyers representing Tommy Suharto , son of former President Haji Mohammad Suharto . Indonesian law requires that parties try mediation to resolve...

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Sewing machine patented

On September 10, 1846, United States patent number 3640 was awarded to Elias Howe for his sewing machine. In 1854, Howe brought legal action against Isaac Singer, because he alleged Singer's machine infringed upon the patent. Howe won the case and was awarded royalties from the Singer sewing machines.
Learn more about Elias Howe from the University of Rochester.

Last French execution by guillotine

On September 10, 1977, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, became the last person executed by guillotine in France.

The French death penalty was formally abolished by President Francois Mitterand in 1981. Learn more about the history of the guillotine.

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