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Canada high court hears arguments on permanent terror detentions

June 13, 2006 03:24:00 PM

Lawyers for three men Arab Muslim men argued before the Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday that a program allowing the government to indefinitely detain and deport foreigners with suspected ties to terrorism is unconstitutional. The three men...

June 12, 2006 01:42:00 PM

Fourteen of the 17 Canadian men arrested on terror charges , including five teenagers, appeared Monday in the Ontario Court of Justice , where lawyers for some of the adult suspects complained that their clients had been...

June 6, 2006 10:15:00 AM

Former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been placed in solitary confinement for violating a prison rule for the third time, Khodorkovsky's lawyer Denis Dyatlev said Monday. Khodorkovsky ...

May 5, 2006 11:14:00 AM

A Russian court has ruled that officials at the Siberian prison holding former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky unfairly punished him in December by reprimanding him for leaving a prison workshop without receiving permission. The...

May 3, 2006 01:10:00 PM

The Moscow City Court has denied the appeal of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky , saying it could find no grounds to reconsider Khodorkovsky's eight-year prison sentence . Khodorkovsky's lawyers have...

April 18, 2006 07:44:00 AM

A city court in Siberia where former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is currently in prison ruled Tuesday that his 5-day transfer to solitary confinement earlier this year was unlawful. Khodorkovsky was temporarily...

April 17, 2006 12:25:00 PM

Leading Monday's international brief, Japan has raised concerns that a navigation ban on commercial ships in part of the East China Sea may actually violate Japan's sovereignty and international law under the UN Convention on the...

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Khodorkovsky injured in prison assault

April 15, 2006 05:34:00 PM

Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been hospitalized in Russia after being stabbed in the face by another prisoner while he slept, Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yury Schmidt said Saturday. The injury to Khodorkovsky's...

April 5, 2006 03:11:00 PM

Nineteen-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr refused to take part in military commission proceedings during a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday, claiming that he was mistreated and sent to...

February 13, 2006 08:53:00 AM

Five United Nations rights experts have concluded that detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay have been subjected to physical and mental abuse amounting to torture in some cases, according...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism

November 9 is the International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism [UNITED factsheet]. On November 9, 1924, American gay activist Henry Gerber and several associates formed the Society for Human Rights, the first gay rights organization in the United States. The Society received a charter from the State of Illinois in December but was disbanded in July 1925 after a police raid which led to Gerber's arrest and trial (albeit not conviction). Pay a virtual visit to Henry Gerber House, now a registered Chicago landmark.

Supreme Court strikes down Massachusetts anti-draft law

On November 9, 1970, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 in Massachusetts v. Laird not to hear the case of the state's anti-draft law. Massachusetts had passed a law, which allowed its citizens to decline to fight in any undeclared war, even if the person was drafted. The law was passed in opposition to the draft and the war in Vietnam. The First Circuit found the war constitutional and thus struck down the law.