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Legal News (Jurist: Legal News & Research) ICC assigns judges to Kenya post-election violence situation
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] announced Friday that it has assigned [decision, PDF; press release] three judges to the situation involving the violence perpetrated in the wake of Kenya's 2007 presidential elections [JURIST news archive]. The decision came in response to a Thursday letter [text, PDF] from chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] Source: JURIST - Paper Chase Posted: November 6, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Rights group urges US government to reform Afghanistan detainee policy
[JURIST] The US should reform its detention policy [press release] at Bagram Air Base [JURIST news archive] in Afghanistan in order to combat counterinsurgency, according to a report [text, PDF] released Thursday by Human Rights First (HRF) [advocacy website]. HRF called on the governments of the US and Afghanistan to reach an agreement that "set[s] forth grounds and procedures for detention in Source: JURIST - Paper Chase Posted: November 6, 2009 at 11:56 am

Russia suspect confesses to killing human rights lawyer
[JURIST] A lawyer for the man accused of the double murder [JURIST report] of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova said Friday that his client has confessed to the crime. Nikita Tikhonov and female companion Yevgenia Khasis were arrested Thursday and brought before the Basmanny District Court. In an interview [materials, in Russian] on the radio program Echo Source: JURIST - Paper Chase Posted: November 6, 2009 at 10:05 am

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