Torture confession admissibility ruling [US DC] News
Torture confession admissibility ruling [US DC]

US v. Ahmend Omar Abu Ali, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, October 24, 2005 [ruling that US federal prosecutors can use a confession allegedly made under torture in Saudi Arabia by Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a US citizen charged with conspiracy to assassinate the president, conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy, providing material support to al Qaeda and various other crimes]. Read the full text of the memorandum opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Alabama governor Wallace deployed National Guard to stop integration of Tuskegee High

On September 2, 1963, then-Alabama Governor George Wallace surrounded the Tuskegee High School with Alabama National Guard troops in an effort to prevent its integration pursuant to a federal court order in Lee vs. Macon County. In response, President John F. Kennedy federalized the Guard and sent it back to its barracks.

Former Rwanda politician convicted of genocide

On September 2, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicted the former mayor of Taba, Jean-Paul Akayesu, on nine counts of crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. A month later, Akayesu was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. Read ICTR documents from the trial of Jean-Paul Akayesu.