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Egypt court says forgery sophistication prompted Nour conviction
The Egyptian court that in December sentenced opposition leader Ayman Nour to five years in prison for forging signatures to register his Al-Ghad party in last year's presidential election said Saturday that it had convicted Nour and his six c (More) |
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Egypt to release detained Sudanese refugees
Egyptian officials have said that 143 Sudanese refugees, detained by Cairo police after a three-month sit-in protest was forcibly broke up, will be released. As many 600 other Sudanese refugees, some of whom hail from the war torn region of Darfur (More) |
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Swiss panel finds no proof of CIA secret prisons, won't condemn US
Switzerland's foreign affairs committee on Tuesday voted against denouncing the United States over purported secret CIA prisons in Europe for terror suspects after members concluded they lacked sufficient evidence. Committee head Luzi Stamm tol (More) |
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Swiss government presses US for CIA flights information
Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said in a newspaper interview published Sunday that the Swiss government has asked the United States for information about 74 alleged CIA flights through Swiss airspace and several landings of CIA aircraft (More) |
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Leaked document suggests Swiss knew of secret CIA prisons
Swiss intelligence agents have been aware of secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe for nearly two months, according to documents leaked to the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick . According to SonntagsBlick, Swiss military intelligence agents used sat (More) |
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Egypt rights group calls for probe of election violence
The National Council for Human Rights, sponsored by the Egyptian government, on Thursday called for an investigation into the 11 deaths that occurred during the most recent round of parliamentary elections that ended in December. The killings were (More) |
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UNHCR, rights groups urge Egypt not to deport Sudan refugees
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday appealed to Egyptian authorities in an attempt to prevent the deportation of 654 Sudanese refugees whom Cairo authorities say are in the country illegally. Also Wednesday, US-based rights g (More) |
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Sudanese refugees to be deported from Egypt
Egypt plans to deport 654 Sudanese refugees who were recently removed from a protest refugee camp, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday. The announcement follows reports that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) received assurance (More) |
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Egyptian opposition leader sentenced to five years for forgery
Former Egyptian presidential challenger and Al-Ghad opposition party leader Ayman Nour [JURIST news archive; Wikipedia profile] was sentenced Saturday to five years in prison on charges that he forged signatures required for his name to be on presid (More) |
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Italian judge issues Europe-wide arrest warrants for 22 CIA operatives
An Italian judge issued European arrest warrants on Friday for the 22 CIA operatives accused of participating in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 . Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro said the warrants allowed for the arrest of those accuse (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
