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5 charged over Kenya university massacre

June 6, 2015 10:59:09 AM

Kenyan police on Thursday charged five men in connection with the attack on Garissa University by al-Shabaab militants in April. The attack by Somali Islamist gunmen killed 148 students, making it the nation's worst militant attack in nearly 20...

April 7, 2015 11:35:22 AM

A court in Nairobi on Tuesday ordered five Kenyan citizens and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while authorities investigate possible connections to last week's university massacre. The court granted state lawyers' request for the...

December 20, 2014 02:09:32 PM

Kenya's parliament on Thursday passed a sweeping new anti-terrorism law after some of its members engaged in a shoving match that led to blows being exchanged. Those opposed to the bill, citing violations of free...

October 24, 2014 08:39:08 AM

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday condemned Netherlands' attempts to return Somali refugees to areas controlled by Islamist terrorist group Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (al-Shabaab) . The report noted critically that Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK...

August 18, 2014 11:21:22 AM

Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) has carried out a series of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in violation of international human rights laws, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday. Based on interview research conducted between...

November 20, 2013 12:31:15 PM

The Kenyan human rights group Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) and the Open Society Justice Initiative issued a report on Tuesday, calling on the US and the UK to suspend financial support to...

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UN envoy condemns attack on Mogadishu

September 7, 2013 03:11:55 PM

A UN envoy to Somalia on Saturday strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a village restaurant in Mogadishu that left 15 dead. Reports state that a car bomb exploded outside of a restaurant frequented by...

September 4, 2013 07:12:03 AM

The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia Shamsul Bari on Tuesday commended the adoption of a human rights roadmap by the Somali federal government. Formally endorsed by the Somali cabinet last week,...

April 18, 2013 10:07:03 AM

The UN Independent Expert on human rights in Somalia on Wednesday urged the Somali government to continue efforts to strengthen the country's justice system in the wake of Sunday's attacks on the Supreme Court complex ....

April 15, 2013 10:52:23 AM

Al-Shabaab radicals launched an attack on Sunday against Somalia's Supreme Court. The attack, resulting in at least 35 deaths , was one of the worst attacks in years for the country's capital of Mogadishu. According to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US apologizes to Japanese-Americans for detention during WWII

US President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 into law on August 10, 1988, apologizing on behalf of the United States to Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during WWII and providing $20,000 in compensation for each survivor. The law also provided $12,000 in compensation for each living displaced Aleutian Islander who was relocated to a camp in Alaska during the US's Aleutian Islands campaign.

President Reagan authorized compensation for Japanese-Americans interned during World War II

On August 10, 1988, US President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that provided payments of $20,000 to Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps by the US government during World War II. Learn more about the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which also included a formal apology by Congress for what it called a "grave injustice."

National Security Act Amendment reorganizes U.S. military

On August 10, 1949, the National Security Act Amendment was signed into law. It replaced the Department of War with the Department of Defense (DoD) and pulled all military service branches directly under the supervision of the DoD. Learn more about the National Security Act from the U.S. State Department.