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Saudi Arabia official reports 25 recidivism cases among ex-Guantanamo inmates
A senior Saudi official said Saturday that 25 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have rejoined Islamic extremist groups after going through a rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia aimed at decreasing religious radicalism within the country. Abdulrahm (More) |
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Dutch court sentences Somali pirates to 5 years in prison
The Netherlands Rotterdam District Court on Thursday sentenced [judgment, in Dutch; press release] a group of Somali pirates to five years in prison for hijacking a cargo ship registered in the Netherlands Antilles. The five men were arrested last (More) |
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Rights group urges Iraqi Kurdistan to end female genital mutilation
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the government of Iraqi Kurdistan to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM) in a report [materials; press release] published Wednesday. The report, "They Took Me and Told Me Nothing," calls on the Kurdi (More) |
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DC Circuit denies Guantanamo detainee habeas petition
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Guantanamo Bay detainee Adham Mohammed Ali Awad, allowing for continued incarceration of the Yemeni national by the U (More) |
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Pakistan court lifts Facebook ban
The Lahore High Court (LHC) Monday ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to restore access to the Facebook social networking website. The LHC had blocked access to the website earlier this month, in response to a page created by (More) |
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Most Guantanamo detainees 'low-level' combatants: government report
A task force initiated by the US government to evaluate the status of Guantanamo Bay detainees has reported that only 10 percent of inmates were terrorist leaders when President Barack Obama took office in 2009. The Guantanamo Bay Task Force comp (More) |
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Federal judge orders release of Yemeni Guantanamo detainee
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday ordered the release of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Hassen . Hassen had been initially detained [Miami Herald report] in March 2002 following a raid in Faisalab (More) |
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Italy agrees to take two more Guantanamo detainees
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced Tuesday that Italy will take two more detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility . The announcement came during a meeting the US officials from the National Security Council, including N (More) |
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Dutch court begins Europe's first Somali pirate trial
The Netherlands District Court of Rotterdam on Tuesday commenced the first European trial of Somali pirates under charges of "sea robbery" for hijacking a cargo ship registered in the Netherlands Antilles. The five accused Somali pirate (More) |
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The Greatest Threat to Africans' Rights
JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, says that climate change will ravage the African continent if its leaders do not urgently assert their peoples' rights... Africa is the ric (More) |
Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution
On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety takes power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchman and women had been executed by guillotine.
Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
