FOIA DOD records on prisoner abuse by US personnel in Iraq [ACLU] News
FOIA DOD records on prisoner abuse by US personnel in Iraq [ACLU]

Log of (and links to) Department of Defense reports of investigations into US treatment of prisoners in Iraq obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, posted online by the ACLU March 10, 2005 [indicating in one investigatory interview with former Abu Ghraib commandant Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski that the US held children under 12 at the prison as well as women, at least one of whom, then aged 17, was sexually molested by drunken US personnel who were never charged]. Read the full text of the reports here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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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.