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Guatemala trial of Rios Montt has likely collapsed: lawyers
ReutersGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has likely collapsed after the country's top court struck down his conviction for genocide, defense and prosecution lawyers said on Tuesday. Rios Montt was sentenced...Tags: Guatemala, Trials, Politics, Prisons, Litigation
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Guatemala full of questions after genocide conviction annulled
MEXICO CITY — The Guatemalan high court's decision to annul the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Tuesday revived questions about his responsibility for the slaughter of some 1,700 ethnic Maya people. The...Tags: Guatemala, Interior Policy, Trials, Politics, Litigation
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Guatemalan court action revives questions about Rios Montt's fate
MEXICO CITY— The Guatemalan high court’s decision to overturn the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt and restart his trial has revived questions about his responsibility for the slaughter of some 1,700 ethnic...
Tags: Guatemala, Trials, Politics, Litigation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Guatemala's top court annuls Rios Montt genocide conviction
ReutersGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's highest court on Monday overturned a genocide conviction against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and reset his trial back to when a dispute broke out a month ago over who should hear the case. Rios Montt, 86,...Tags: U.S. Congress, Guatemala, Interior Policy, Prisons, Trials
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Guatemala court annuls Rios Montt genocide conviction
ReutersGUATEMALA CITY, May 20 (Reuters) - Guatemala's constitutional court on Monday overturned a genocide conviction against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, throwing out all proceedings in his case since a dispute broke out last month over who should hear...Tags: Guatemala, Punishment, Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide
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Guatemalan court overturns Rios Montt conviction
MEXICO CITY -- Guatemala’s highest court late Monday overturned the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt, a verdict that had been hailed by human rights organizations but now hangs in limbo. The Constitutional Court...
Tags: Guatemala, Politics, Justice and Rights, Genocide, Crime, Law and Justice
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Shooting death of gay man rocks New York's cradle of gay rights
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Greenwich Village, the birthplace of the U.S. gay rights movement, remained in shock on Sunday over the shooting death of a gay man by a gunman who police said uttered anti-gay slurs before targeting the victim. Mark Carson, 32,...Tags: Greenwich Village, Justice and Rights, Minority Groups, Raymond W. Kelly, Shootings
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Glendale schools to take April 24 off
Glendale Unified students and teachers will have next April 24 off in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, following an agreement signed by school officials and the teachers union this week. Thousands of students of Armenian descent typically skip...Tags: U.S. Congress, Adam B. Schiff, Students, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Schiff introduces Genocide resolution, again
In what has become an annual exercise, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) this week introduced a House resolution calling on the U.S. to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide, in which roughly 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by Ottoman Turks from 1915...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Adam B. Schiff, Massacres, Turkey
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News-Press Editorial: Tending the flame of genocide's victims
Those tending the flame of those who perished in the Armenian Genocide had a bit of a mixed bag this week. In happy news, Glendale Unified and its teachers' union agreed to make April 24 — the day that commemorates the horror — an official day...Tags: U.S. Congress, Adam B. Schiff, Barack Obama, Politics, Massacres
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Gay South Korean film director to marry in bid to pry open closet
ReutersSEOUL (Reuters) - A gay South Korean film director is set to symbolically marry his long-term partner, saying he aims to pry open the closet in this conservative Asian country where homosexuality is still taboo and gays have been subjected to hate crimes....Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Politics, Justice and Rights, Gay Rights, Minority Groups
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Russia's gays fear more violence after brutal murder
ReutersBy Thomas Grove and Steve Gutterman MOSCOW, May 13 (Reuters) - They beat him. They shoved beer bottles in his anus. They tried to set him on fire. Then they crushed his head with a heavy stone. A 23-year-old man in Russia's southern city of Volgograd...Tags: Politics, Prostitution, Activism, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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