BREAKING NEWS ~ French journalists held hostage in Iraq over headscarf ban released News
BREAKING NEWS ~ French journalists held hostage in Iraq over headscarf ban released

[JURIST] The French Foreign Ministry has announced that two French journalists held hostage in Iraq since August and whose release was initially made contingent upon the French government not allowing its ban on religious headscarves and regalia in public schools to go into force have been released and handed over to French authorities in Baghdad. The French ban went into force as planned at the beginning of September. Previously in JURIST's Paper Chase:

12:02 PM ET – From Paris, Le Figaro, the employer of one of the kidnapped French journalists now free, provides extensive local coverage in French and offers a timeline of their four months in captivity.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Montgomery started racially-integrated bus service after boycott

On December 21, 1956, buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation. Bus boycott leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were among the first riders under the new scheme. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Stalin born

On December 21, 1879, Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia. In 1922, he became leader of the USSR until his death in 1953. During his time as Soviet dictator, Stalin industrialized his country, which he then led to become one of the world's two superpowers after WWII. Through his infamous purges, show trials and nationwide famines, Stalin also became responsible for millions of deaths.