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...Hungary’s revolt against its pro-Soviet government is quashed by Russian tanks. In response, Harvard students form the Harvard Freedom Council. The council organizes film screenings and attempts to raise money to have one Hungarian student study at Harvard each year...
...This “pink scare” is the last in a long stretch of investigations into possible Communist activities at universities. Throughout the McCarthy era, Harvard students and faculty remained vehement in their defense of academic freedom and the unconstitutionality of the investigations...
...harbor any bitterness," Johnson said after his release. "If you hold something like that inside you, it just destroys you. Now it's time for me to go on with my life." Since his exoneration, Johnson, who served 16 years of his life sentence, wrote the book Exit to Freedom and joined the Innocence Project's board of directors...
...Exoneration: DNA testing in another murder case proved to be the key to Matthews' and Hayes' freedom. Rondell Love, who committed a murder just days after the killing for which Matthews and Hayes were convicted, boasted in jail about committing both murders. And DNA on the mask from the first murder matched Love's - and not Matthews' or Hayes'. Matthews was exonerated in June 2004, but it took lawyers at the Innocence Project more than two years to bring Hayes back to court. In December 2006, after Hayes served eight years in prison, he was released. "I always knew...
...does the tribunal help Lebanon? This tribunal is so essential for democracy, for freedom, for the prevalence of the state, for law and order. Otherwise, [the message] sent to all criminals or those who are against the state [is] that they can continue committing crimes and there is impunity in this country, [that] it is the best place, the paradise, for criminals...