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Rights group: China police use torture despite ban
Human Rights in China (HRIC) issued a release on Wednesday saying that Chinese police and other officials still employ torture to elicit confessions and intimidate political dissidents despite domestic and international bans. The group said even (More) |
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Report accuses Israel of excluding Palestinians from West Bank settlement areas
A report [B'Tselem press release] released Thursday by B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories alleges that Israeli security policies have resulted in Palestinians being prevented from accessin (More) |
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SEC charges ex-brokers with subprime securities misrepresentation
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [official website; JURIST news archive] has charged two former brokers for Credit-Suisse [corporate website; JURIST news archive] with defrauding clients of $1 billion by selling subprime securities (More) |
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Iraq cabinet approves Abu Ghraib prison rebuilding plan
The Iraqi government announced plans Wednesday to rebuild Abu Ghraib prison , where US military guards were photographed abusing Iraqi prisoners . Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the Iraqi Cabinet had approved the Defense Ministry's pr (More) |
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Cambodia genocide court judge warns colleagues against corruption
A New Zealand judge serving on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia warned colleagues and prosecutors Monday that its upcoming genocide trials "are so important for the people of Cambodia must not be tainted by corruption.&quo (More) |
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Mexico Supreme Court upholds first-trimester abortion law
The Mexican Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a law permitting first-trimester abortions in Mexico City does not violate the Mexican Constitution . The federal attorney general and the National Human Rights Commission brought a lawsuit [case (More) |
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Operation Scheduled Departure's failure proves US can't rely on deportation fix
Michele Waslin [Senior Policy Analyst, Immigration Policy Center, American Immigration Law Foundation]: "This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it had suspended its latest immigration enforcement experiment. Dubbed (More) |
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Washington non-consensual organ-harvesting case to be resolved by state court
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has asked the Washington Supreme Court to determine whether the sister of a man whose bodily tissues were harvested for medical research without consent may sue for damages. In an order issued Tuesday (More) |
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Kansas church to defy federal appeals ruling upholding funeral protests ban
Followers of the Kansas-based fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church [JURIST news archive; BBC report] plan to stage a protest at the funeral for late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) Saturday, despite a federal appeals court ruling last (More) |
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Federal court upholds charges against ex-US soldier in Mahmudiya killings case
A federal judge has rejected constitutional challenges to civilian charges against former US Army Pvt. Steven D. Green in connection with the rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl and the killing of her family in Mahmudiya, Iraq (also "Mahmou (More) |
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans.
Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
