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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of prisoners, and to end... Read more |
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Elmira
Elmira , city (1990 pop. 33,724), seat of Chemung co., extreme S central N.Y., on the Chemung River; settled 1788, inc. 1864. It is a distribution and manufacturing center with plants that make electronic and fire-fighting equipment, automobile parts, and iron and steel products. The Treaty of... Read more |
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prisoners of war
prisoners of war in international law, persons captured by a belligerent while fighting in the military. International law includes rules on the treatment of prisoners of war but extends protection only to combatants. This excludes civilians who engage in hostilities (by international law they are... Read more |
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William Ruthven 1st earl of Gowrie
Gowrie, William Ruthven, 1st earl of [S] (c.1541–84). The Ruthven estates were in Perthshire and the family, protestant by religion, formed part of the English interest. Gowrie's father, the 3rd Lord Ruthven, took a leading part in the murder of Rizzio in 1566, but died almost immediately... Read more |
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Abu Ghraib
Abu Ghraib or Abu Ghurayb , infamous prison located in the town of Abu Ghraib, c.20 mi (32 km) W of Baghdad, Iraq. Built by British contractors in the 1960s, it occupies c.280 acres (113 hectares) and is comprised of five separate compounds. During Saddam Hussein 's regime, Abu Ghraib was... Read more |
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT The prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments is one of the most important constitutional limitations upon the penal process. Like the general guarantees of due process and equal protection, it has been applied to every aspect of that process, ranging from the... Read more |
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prison
prison place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. By the end of the 18th cent. imprisonment was the chief mode of punishment for all but capital crimes. At that time, largely as a result of the writings of Cesare Beccaria in Italy and John Howard and others in... Read more |
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Factitious disorders
Ganser's syndrome Definition Ganser's syndrome is a rare disorder in which the affected person gives approximate answers to questions that have right and wrong answers, such as "What is 5 minus 3?" Description Although this disorder was previously classified as a ... Read more |
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Algerine War
Algerine War , early 19th-century conflict between Algiers and the United States. The Tripolitan War (1801-5) had brought a temporary halt to the pirate activities of the Barbary States. However, during the subsequent Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 the Barbary pirates renewed their predatory... Read more |
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'Put This Nightmare Behind Me'.(lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart chooses to do...
...serve her five-month sentence for...perjured himself. Stewart appears to want it all: an end to the bad PR...company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia...on appeal. A Stewart spokeswoman...I think her saga is a case ... |
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Notorious art thief taken ill in prison.
...surfaced in recent months in connection...million Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...while jogging in prison on Saturday...Norfolk State Prison for receiving...the Herald a month ago. But he...the Gardner saga. Connor ... |
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Martha`s Business; Getting Trendy, CNNfn
...start her five-month prison term. What...company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia...Company: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia...move past this saga. Allan Chernoff...that Martha Stewart built. (BEGIN...prison ... |
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4 Traders Get Prison in Commodities Fraud
...sentenced to federal prison Wednesday for up to five months for charges stemming...four-year saga. Despite the...infractions. "In the end, everybody said...terms of five months each, with two...each for a two-month term ... |
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Myles Connor said to suffer possible heart attack in jail.
...surfaced in recent months in connection...million Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...while jogging in prison on Saturday...Norfolk State Prison for receiving...the Herald a month ago. But he...the Gardner saga. Connor ... |
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2004 WAS FAR FROM A BORE - Business world proved bizarre, bustling.(Business)
...with Martha Stewart's imprisonment...rate down to 5.5 percent from...2004 marked the end of the state...priestess Martha Stewart also faced scandal...July to five months in the hoosegow...at a federal prison ... |
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...lasted for three months. The Premier...Weekend Sport Page 5 Limbs-in...was staging a prison protest yesterday...Greeks hope to end plane-spotting saga GREEK foreign...very quickly. Stewart knighted by...Wales Jackie ... |
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UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News.
...see her at the end. This guy barred...the last three months of her life, Lott...when he went to prison for selling drugs...his fate at the end of the broadcast...at No. 3, Rod Stewart's Soulbook at...Castle at No. 5. ... |
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