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Iran authorities arrest academics affiliated with Mousavi: report

June 25, 2009 01:55:00 PM

Iranian authorities arrested 70 members of the Islamic Association of University Teachers after they met with opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi on Wednesday, according to a statement on Mousavi's website ....

June 24, 2009 11:38:00 AM

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei granted a request Wednesday to allow opposition candidates five additional days to submit complaints about the contested presidential election in Iran. The Guardian Council for the...

June 23, 2009 12:50:00 PM

Iranian authorities announced on Tuesday that they would not hold a new presidential election, maintaining that there was no evidence of any major fraud or irregularity in the contested results . Following its investigation , the country's...

June 22, 2009 01:40:00 PM

Iranian forces arrested 457 people Saturday for protesting the recent presidential election , according to state media on Monday. According to reports, at least ten people were killed in the weekend's protests. Also Monday, Iran's Guardian Council of...

June 19, 2009 01:15:00 PM

The arrests of protesters in Iran may not conform with the law, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay said Friday, expressing concern over the increasing number of reported arrests . Classifying freedom...

June 18, 2009 11:51:00 AM

Political activists and politicians in Iran have been arrested following protests of the country's controversial presidential election , human rights groups said Wednesday. According to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) , former foreign...

June 16, 2009 07:53:00 AM

Iran's Guardian Council of the Constitution said Tuesday that it would conduct a partial recount of disputed presidential election results after the country's spiritual leader and highest authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [official profile;...

March 20, 2007 06:38:00 PM

Reporter Rafig Tagi and editor Samir Huseinov, both of the newspaper Senet, went on trial Tuesday in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for allegedly insulting Islam. Both claim the prosecution is...

May 3, 2006 09:42:00 AM

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Uganda's second key witness in the treason case against opposition leader Kizza Besigye has admitted to perjury under cross-examination by Besigye's lawyers. Migadde Ssemakula, who claims he is a lieutenant...

February 22, 2006 08:39:00 AM

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Israeli attorney Eran Shahar, representing Civil Coalition (CC), a civil rights group, has filed a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the German Constitutional Court on charges of incitement and denying the...

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On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

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