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News UK terror detainees to be freed subject to "control orders"
UK terror detainees to be freed subject to "control orders"
Jeannie Shawl
January 26, 2005 08:06:00 am

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced Wednesday that foreign terror suspects currently being detained in British prisons will be set free and will either be deported or will be subject to "control orders." At one end of...

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News Chile high court imposes deadline for Pinochet rights trials
Chile high court imposes deadline for Pinochet rights trials
Jeannie Shawl
January 26, 2005 07:45:00 am

Chile's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that judges investigating charges of murder, torture and kidnappings under former dictator Augusto Pinochet's rule should file charges within six months or close their investigations. 365 human rights cases stemming from Pinochet's...

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News Torture continuing in Iraqi jails, report says
Torture continuing in Iraqi jails, report says
Jeannie Shawl
January 25, 2005 08:49:00 am

Iraqi prisoners are routinely subject to torture by Iraqi authorities, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Tuesday. Iraqi prisoners told HRW investigators that they had been tortured or mistreated by kicking, slapping and punching; prolonged...

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News Twenty-three Gitmo detainees stage suicide protest
Twenty-three Gitmo detainees stage suicide protest
Jeannie Shawl
January 25, 2005 08:04:00 am

Twenty-three terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay tried to kill or harm themselves as part of a "coordinated effort to disrupt camp operations" in August 2003, US Southern Command officials confirmed Monday. Only two of the incidents...

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News Trial begins in suit over force used in Elian Gonzalez raid
Trial begins in suit over force used in Elian Gonzalez raid
Jeannie Shawl
January 25, 2005 07:38:00 am

US District Judge K. Michael Moore began hearing a case Monday against the US government brought by supporters of Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez . The plaintiffs in the case, who were protesting...

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News UK lawyers call for action on detainees, change in terror law
UK lawyers call for action on detainees, change in terror law
Jeannie Shawl
January 24, 2005 08:13:00 am

Britain's Law Society , which represents lawyers in England and Wales, has called for the nine foreign terror suspects who have been detained in the UK since December 2001 to be tried or released....

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News Defense Department denies "bending" statutes by setting up secret espionage arm
Defense Department denies "bending" statutes by setting up secret espionage arm
Jeannie Shawl
January 24, 2005 07:45:00 am

The US Defense Department has denied a published report that it has set up a new internal espionage arm to get around legal restrictions on foreign clandestine operations. The Washington Post said over the weekend that DOD had established...

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Judge approves extension in United bankruptcy case
Jeannie Shawl
January 21, 2005 03:32:00 pm

US Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff Friday approved a 90-day extension of the exclusivity period covering the bankruptcy reorganization plan of UAL Corporation, parent of United Airlines . During the exclusivity period, no other parties may submit...

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News Danish court allows employer to ban headscarves
Danish court allows employer to ban headscarves
Jeannie Shawl
January 21, 2005 02:27:00 pm

Denmark's High Court ruled Friday that Danish supermarket chain Dansk Supermarked Group has the right to ban employees from wearing religious headscarves, saying that the legislature "has weighed the right of an employer to demand a uniform...

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News Indiana appeals court upholds same-sex marriage ban
Indiana appeals court upholds same-sex marriage ban
Jeannie Shawl
January 20, 2005 03:49:00 pm

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the state's constitution does not require governmental recognition of same-sex marriage. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three same sex couples who argued that law was unconstitutional because...

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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.

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