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News Ex-Kosovo PM pleads not guilty at ICTY
Ex-Kosovo PM pleads not guilty at ICTY
Leslie Schulman
March 1, 2007 01:21:00 pm

Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj pleaded not guilty Thursday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to 37 counts of war crimes, including murder, persecution, and rape. Haradinaj,...

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News Ex-US Attorney says dismissal was political retaliation for not speeding indictments
Ex-US Attorney says dismissal was political retaliation for not speeding indictments
Leslie Schulman
February 28, 2007 08:01:00 pm

David Iglesias, former US Attorney for the District of New Mexico , told reporters Wednesday that he received two phone calls in October from federal lawmakers pressuring him to speed up indictments of...

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News Defense secretary rejects proposed Guantanamo court facilities
Defense secretary rejects proposed Guantanamo court facilities
Leslie Schulman
February 28, 2007 07:04:00 pm

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected a plan by the US military to construct a $100 million courthouse at Guantanamo Bay . The complex proposed last October , would have...

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News Egypt blogger sentenced to prison for insulting Islam online
Egypt blogger sentenced to prison for insulting Islam online
Leslie Schulman
February 22, 2007 05:42:00 pm

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife in his blog . Nabil, a 22-year-old former law student, had...

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News China newspaper editor convicted of embezzlement has sentence reduced
China newspaper editor convicted of embezzlement has sentence reduced
Leslie Schulman
February 22, 2007 04:47:00 pm

Jailed Chinese newspaper ex-editor Yu Huafeng has had his eight-year sentence reduced by one year, according to Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Daily News on Thursday. Huafeng and his colleague Li...

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News Egypt cleric alleges torture after 2003 CIA rendition from Italy
Egypt cleric alleges torture after 2003 CIA rendition from Italy
Leslie Schulman
February 22, 2007 04:02:00 pm

Speaking publicly for the first time, Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr said Thursday that he was tortured by Egyptian officials during his four-year detention in Egypt following an alleged 2003 kidnapping ...

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News Proposed South Dakota abortion ban fails in state Senate committee
Proposed South Dakota abortion ban fails in state Senate committee
Leslie Schulman
February 21, 2007 07:59:00 pm

The South Dakota Senate State Affairs committee rejected a bill in an 8-1 vote on Wednesday that would have criminalized most abortions in the state with exceptions for rape, incest and life-threatening conditions...

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News Rhode Island to recognize some Massachusetts same-sex marriages
Rhode Island to recognize some Massachusetts same-sex marriages
Leslie Schulman
February 21, 2007 07:13:00 pm

Rhode Island will recognize same-sex marriages of state employees performed in Massachusetts, according to Attorney General Patrick Lynch in a letter sent to the Commissioner of the Rhode Island Board...

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News Tobacco regulation bill introduced in US Congress
Tobacco regulation bill introduced in US Congress
Leslie Schulman
February 16, 2007 11:18:00 am

A group of lawmakers from the US Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday introduced the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act , which would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [official...

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News CIA contacted Italy about renditions after 9/11: testimony
CIA contacted Italy about renditions after 9/11: testimony
Leslie Schulman
February 15, 2007 04:54:00 pm

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contacted Italian intelligence about the possibility of performing extraordinary renditions in the days following the September 11 attacks, according to testimony during Italian judicial proceedings against US and...

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Georgia became first US state to ban lynching

On December 20, 1893, Georgia became the first state in the Union to pass a law against lynching, making the act punishable by four years in prison.

The statute was not particularly effective - read the text of the 1899 pamphlet Lynch Law in Georgia by anti-lynching activist Ida Wells-Barnett.

UN Drug Trafficking Convention signed

On December 20, 1988, the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The treaty provides mechanisms for international coordination in preventing the manufacture and distribution of drugs worldwide. Over 170 countries have signed the treaty to date.

Learn more about the treaty from the UN.

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