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...breezy November night, Yan etches Chinese characters across most of the side of City Hall. They read "Save Queen's Pier" (an ironic appeal on behalf of a now demolished landmark), and the reason he can write them with impunity is because they are drawn using a laser pointer in high-intensity light - not spray paint. By standing on the roof of a parking lot across the street, he also avoids any danger of trespassing. When he's done, Yan erases the words by clicking a button on the laser pointer, connected to a laptop and projector at his feet...
...case, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, builds on the landmark 2004 decision Rasul v. Bush, in which the Supreme Court declared that Guantanamo detainees could exercise habeas corpus in Federal courts. Despite the court’s ruling, the administration has passed legislation that creates obstacles to the petitions of “enemy combatants.” The current Al Odah case challenges such legislation...
...years ago 122 nations signed the Ottawa Convention, a landmark agreement that banned the production, sale and use of land mines. The impact has been significant. The number of victims killed or maimed annually has fallen from 26,000 in 1996 to less than half that today. Afghanistan, which signed the treaty in 2002, has seen cases more than halved from 2000 in 2001 to 796 last year. Still, the stories of Helal, Mansoor and Karami reveal a reality that no treaty can erase. "Mines don't just cut off legs," says Mansoor, "they destroy the soul. If someone loses...
...Shari'a courts are increasingly refusing to accept conversions out of Islam, arguing that apostasy is illegal in the Muslim faith. At the same time, civil courts have become less willing to rule on religious issues they say are the domain of the Muslim legal system. In a landmark case earlier this year, the nation's highest court decided that it had no jurisdiction to deem a person non-Muslim, because that is the Shari'a courts' prerogative...
...Peter Foster, the tribunal's U.N. public affairs officer, said that Duch's landmark hearing evoked for some Cambodians attending the court a sense of wonderment that the Khmer Rouge leadership was finally being called to account. "After so long not believing it would ever happen, it took until this moment,? he says. ?Now they see that there is no turning back...