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News China website editor sentenced to prison for defaming government
China website editor sentenced to prison for defaming government
Lisl Brunner
March 20, 2007 04:46:00 pm

The editor of a website in China that called for political reform has been sentenced to six years in prison by the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang province for defaming the government. Zhang Jianhong [Reporters...

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News German lawyer of Holocaust denier charged with incitement, using Nazi symbols
German lawyer of Holocaust denier charged with incitement, using Nazi symbols
Lisl Brunner
March 20, 2007 04:11:00 pm

A defense lawyer for German Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel has been charged with incitement, attempting to thwart a prosecution, and using banned Nazi symbols during the original trial of Zundel in 2005. According to prosecutors at...

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News Japanese internet executive sentenced to prison for Livedoor fraud
Japanese internet executive sentenced to prison for Livedoor fraud
Lisl Brunner
March 16, 2007 01:12:00 pm

Japanese Internet entrepreneur Takafumi Horie , 34, was convicted of securities law violations on Friday and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Horie, whose rebellious style made him a media celebrity , received a...

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News Italy government urges cancellation of indictments against intelligence officers
Italy government urges cancellation of indictments against intelligence officers
Lisl Brunner
March 16, 2007 12:15:00 pm

Italy has asked the Italian Constitutional Court to cancel the indictments of 34 American and Italian intelligence officials in connection with the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian cleric...

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News Pakistan judicial council lifts restrictions on suspended chief justice
Pakistan judicial council lifts restrictions on suspended chief justice
Lisl Brunner
March 16, 2007 11:38:00 am

The Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan Friday removed all restrictions on the liberty of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry , suspended for misconduct last week by President Pervez Musharraf ....

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Dismissed Ecuador lawmakers fight police as constitutional court ducks dispute
Lisl Brunner
March 13, 2007 05:22:00 pm

Lawmakers dismissed last week by Ecuador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) fought police as they tried to enter the Congress of Ecuador on Tuesday, sparking violence that led to the suspension of the legislature's activities for...

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News UK court drops last abuse charges against soldiers for death of Iraqi detainee
UK court drops last abuse charges against soldiers for death of Iraqi detainee
Lisl Brunner
March 13, 2007 04:49:00 pm

Charges were dropped Tuesday against the last of seven British soldiers accused of causing the 2003 death of Iraqi civilian Baha Musa . A military panel cleared Major Michael Peebles and Warrant Officer Mark Davies...

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USS Cole families civil suit against Sudan begins
Lisl Brunner
March 13, 2007 04:11:00 pm

Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a civil suit brought against Sudan by families of US military personnel killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inquiry report;...

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News China private property law goes before legislature
China private property law goes before legislature
Lisl Brunner
March 8, 2007 04:23:00 pm

A new law to protect private property in China was presented to the Chinese legislature on Thursday. The law, in the making since 1993, would define the scope of public and private property to advance the...

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Massachusetts prisons sued for allegedly violating rights of mentally ill
Lisl Brunner
March 8, 2007 03:58:00 pm

The Disability Law Center of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) on Thursday, saying the state's treatment of mentally ill prisoners violates the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act...

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India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster

On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court. Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.

Seventeenth Amendment ratified

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