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Report on government assurances against foreign torture [HRW]

April 15, 2005 11:26:00 PM

Still at Risk: Diplomatic Assurances No Safeguard against Torture, Human Rights Watch , April 15, 2005 [reporting that governments in both North America and Europe have negligently relied upon promises of humane treatment in order to transfer terror suspects to...

Iraqi lawmakers settle on Kurd for presidency with Sunni, Shiite VPs

April 5, 2005 04:29:00 PM

Members of Iraq's National Assembly Tuesday reached agreement on a president and vice presidents for the transitional government. Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani will be named president Wednesday, while Shiite Adel Abdul Mahdi and Sunni...

French Muslims urge reconsideration of headscarf ban

March 27, 2005 01:58:00 PM

France's largest Muslim organization, the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) , has argued at a national conference of French Muslims that the state should reconsider its ban on Islamic headscarves [BBC Q&A on headscarf ban;...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

Learn more about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.