Omar Khadr access to documents ruling [Canada SC] News
Omar Khadr access to documents ruling [Canada SC]

Minister of Justice v. Omar Khadr, Supreme Court of Canada, May 23, 2008 [holding that Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay military prison, has a constitutional right to see confidential documents compiled by Canadian officials following interviews with him, but that the government can withhold some information for national security purposes]. Read the full text of the decision [text, HTML]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Seventeen tried in Stalin purge

On January 23, 1937, seventeen of Joseph Stalin's political enemies went on trial in Moscow during the Soviet leader's Great Purge. This trial of seventeen represented the second of the three "Moscow Trials" in which prominent Soviet leaders were accused and convicted of conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code. The defendants were sentenced to execution or deportation to work camps.

24th Amendment to US Constitution ratified

On January 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified. Learn more about the 24th Amendment and poll taxes from the National Constitution Center.