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HRW Calls China To Drop Move To Legalize Incommunicado Detentions
(RTTNews) - The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the Chinese legislature to delete provisions in the draft criminal procedure law that would allow the incommunicado detention in undisclosed locations of certain categories of criminal suspects.
Updated: 03/12/2012 01:26A
" Is Walker Now the Target of a Criminal Probe? "
GOP law temporarily halted in advance of April primary; Found 'restrictive', 'extremely broad', 'largely needless'... Told he'd not be able to vote without a Photo ID at same Nashville poll where he'd legally voted for years... TODAY: Iran talk jacks
Updated: 03/12/2012 01:18A
SOMArts exhibit spotlights illegal expressions of art
The “high” is triggered by the SOMArts exhibition “I Am Crime: Art on the Edge of Law” where amber lights flash from a mock police car and panicked voices echo out of video sets. The show captures the weight of the risk, impending consequences and
Updated: 03/12/2012 01:06A
Public Consultation and Legalized Detention in China
Last August, in a long-awaited revision of China's criminal procedure law, the National People's Congress proposed officially sanctioning the secret holding of suspects in politically-sensitive cases, such as terrorism and state subversion.
Updated: 03/12/2012 01:02A
Alabama doctors can be sued for death of unborn, pre-viable child
The state's high court rules that a civil claim is consistent with a state criminal law intended to protect fetuses. By Alicia Gallegos, amednews staff. Posted March 12, 2012. Parents of unborn children can sue doctors for wrongful death,
Updated: 03/12/2012 12:37A
Alabama doctors can be sued for death of unborn, pre-viable child
The state's high court rules that a civil claim is consistent with a state criminal law intended to protect fetuses. By Alicia Gallegos, amednews staff. Posted March 12, 2012. Parents of unborn children can sue doctors for wrongful death,
Updated: 03/12/2012 12:37A
Analysis: Observers say no one's getting soft on crime
by Walter C. Jones, Morris News Service ATLANTA — The sweeping overhaul of juvenile laws and criminal sentencing reflects some changes in Georgia's approach to law and order, but observers say the state leadership isn't getting soft on crime.
Updated: 03/12/2012 12:30A
Criminal-justice reform awaits committee OK
“The bill departs from the recommendations of the Criminal Justice Reform Council, not significantly, but in some areas that I think will not produce the results that the council had originally intended,” Deal said, noting that the council's threshold
Updated: 03/12/2012 12:08A
'Britain's Hague sued over Pakistan drone attacks'
Lawyers will claim that civilian intelligence officers who pass on intelligence to the US are not "lawful combatants", therefore cannot claim immunity from criminal law and could be liable as "secondary parties to murder". They will also argue that the
Updated: 03/12/2012 12:01A
'Britain's Hague sued over Pakistan drone attacks'
Lawyers will claim that civilian intelligence officers who pass on intelligence to the US are not "lawful combatants", therefore cannot claim immunity from criminal law and could be liable as "secondary parties to murder". They will also argue that the
Updated: 03/12/2012 12:01A
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