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KAZAKHSTAN: "One nation – one religion"?
Earlier, the head of the new state Agency of Religious Affairs (ARA) stated that the country had chosen "one nation – one religion" and that the ARA will "prepare a concept on the 'Development of moderate Islam in Kazakhstan'".
Updated: 07/28/2011 09:16A
Former DPP raps Government over public survey on issue
Veteran prosecutor Nicholas Cowdery, QC, will tell a criminal law conference in Melbourne today that mandatory sentencing is antithetical to justice. The Director of Public Prosecutions in NSW for 16 years until this year will tell the Law Institute
Updated: 07/28/2011 08:52A
Ind. panel ponders marijuana laws
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - State lawmakers will study whether to legalize marijuana or reduce criminal penalties on small amounts of the drug. Members of Indiana's Criminal Law and Sentencing Policy Study Committee were set to begin studying the issue
Updated: 07/28/2011 08:16A
US, Australian law enforcement chiefs to visit Israel count
The group, which will include a criminal law professor, will visit the sites of 16 past terrorism attacks and hear about how the Israel Police responds to mass casualty incident, according to organizers MK International Security Consulting (ISC),
Updated: 07/28/2011 08:09A
US, Aussie police to visit Israel counter-terror program
The group, which will include a criminal law professor, will visit the sites of 16 past terrorism attacks and hear about how the Israel Police responds to mass casualty incident, according to organizers MK International Security Consulting (ISC),
Updated: 07/28/2011 08:09A
Is the arrested Shetland Islands man the LulzSec member 'Topiary'?
The statement said: “He was arrested under Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act and Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 at a residential address in the Shetland Islands. A residential address in Lincolnshire is also being searched.
Updated: 07/28/2011 07:59A
Indiana lawmakers ponder easing marijuana laws
Lawmakers have approved medical marijuana in 16 states and the District of Columbia. They have eliminated penalties on small amounts of marijuana in 13 other states. Gov. Mitch Daniels has said he would like to wait and see what the panel finds before
Updated: 07/28/2011 07:54A
Lawmakers ponder Indiana's marijuana laws
AP State lawmakers will study whether to legalize marijuana or reduce criminal penalties on small amounts of the drug. Members of Indiana's Criminal Law and Sentencing Policy Study Committee were set to begin studying the issue Thursday.
Updated: 07/28/2011 07:29A
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Swartz of the Criminal Division Speaks
To emphasize, this subsection simply makes clear that no criminal law remedy, other than continuance, may be imposed under this section to address a free-standing failure of consular notification claim. In sum, then, the bill before you carefully
Updated: 07/28/2011 07:03A
Indiana lawmakers ponder state marijuana laws
AP INDIANAPOLIS - State lawmakers will study whether to legalize marijuana or reduce criminal penalties on small amounts of the drug. Members of Indiana's Criminal Law and Sentencing Policy Study Committee were set to begin studying the issue Thursday.
Updated: 07/28/2011 07:00A
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