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Human Trafficking Report: American children, immigrants forced into slavery, sex trade in Ohio

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 1:33 AM | Add Comment

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Pakistani brothers to have ears and nose chopped off for doing the same to woman who rejected one

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Pakistani ruling party grapples with amnesty's end

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:56 AM | Add Comment

Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:55 PM | Add Comment

Supreme Court takes up 'honest services' (anti-corruption) law

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:50 PM | Add Comment

Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:06 PM | Add Comment

Man stopped in Norwegian customs caught carrying a tarantula in his bag, with 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos taped to his body

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:27 AM | Add Comment

Ending the silence on 'honour killing' -- those who have escaped violence are speaking out to break the code of silence

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2009 8:39 AM | Add Comment

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea from Uighur inmates in Guantanamo Bay prison to be freed in the United States

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2009 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Court rules against Stalin's grandson in libel suit

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 10:17 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Videos: Luciole Press friend and contributor Graywolf interviewed by Roberta Weighill for AIM TV (American Indian Movement Santa Barbara)

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Group of American Indians who find the Washington Redskins' name offensive want the Supreme Court to take up the matter

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2009 1:12 AM | Add Comment

Mambo, a dog who was covered in gas, set on fire and left for dead, will face his torturers in court

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 11:44 PM | Add Comment

Kenyan police: Arrest in death of Scottish geologist Campbell Bridges, who was attacked "by men armed with arrows, spears and machetes, in an apparent dispute over mining rights"

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2009 9:46 AM | Add Comment

MY opinion, as Palin ups the rhetoric, saying Obama's health care plan is 'evil' and will make "death panels" that deny care (DESPITE the fact that insurance companies already effectively decide who gets transplants or not)

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:45 PM | View Comments (26) | Add Comment

HOORAH!!!! "Sandbag saved! Animal charities like Blue Cross unite to bring home soldiers' mascot left out in Iraq"

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:42 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine allows 3 men (of the "Norfolk Four") convicted in rape-slaying of fellow sailor's wife be freed; outraged victim's family "blame the decision on political pressure from novelist John Grisham"

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 10:31 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Welcome home ladies: very touching photos of freed journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling greeting their families

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 6:14 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

2 articles: "Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial" and "Police fire tear gas at women supporting Lubna Hussein, who is facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers"

Posted by kluciole at 8/4/2009 2:30 PM | Add Comment

2 articles: "Australia threatens Japan with whaling legal action" and "Japan, Norway wasting millions on whaling: WWF"

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 2:15 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

High court says convicts lack right to DNA testing

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2009 2:43 AM | Add Comment

Lawsuits over wolf hunting filed in Montana and Wyoming

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 7:15 PM | Add Comment

Blogger jailed in Anna Nicole Smith defamation suit: Lyndal Harrington says she is shocked she is being sued for comments posted on someone else's blog to pass the time

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:39 AM | Add Comment

Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17 (a US-Indonesian model), "has escaped her abusive marriage to a Malaysian prince" (whose royal family no longer has immunity from criminal and civil charges)

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:23 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

TIME article: How to Make Terrorists Talk -- "All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, closer to bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies"

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2009 7:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

$2M for kin of Esmin Green, woman who died on NY hospital floor "struggling to get up while staffers ignored her"

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 6:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Sotomayor's Supreme Court bid in Senate's hands

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:08 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

GOP keeps filibuster card ready for Obama's Supreme Court pick

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 3:53 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Alaska cracks down on man who feeds wild bears (one friend says, "Even if Vandergaw ends up being killed by the bears he loves, that's the Alaska way")

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 4:27 PM | Add Comment

Slayings shattered dreams of rural Iraqi family (14-year-old Abeer was raped and killed along with her parents and sister by convicted former Marine Pfc. Steven Dale Green)

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 4:16 PM | Add Comment

Supreme Court rejects bid to outlaw medical marijuana

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2009 10:43 PM | Add Comment

Washington Redskins win legal victory in 17-year fight with group of American Indians who contend the football team's trademark is racially offensive

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2009 1:04 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Suu Kyi Faces Jail After Visit From Uninvited American

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2009 6:31 AM | Add Comment

Landmark ruling by the Malaysian courts grants indigenous tribes land rights that could help them stop deforestation and expansion of palm oil plantations on their traditional terrains

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2009 3:54 PM | Add Comment

Horse trader convicted of mistreating 140 horses, ponies and donkeys in Britain's worst cruelty case

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2009 11:22 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a rainbow is seen behind the statue of Justice outside the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasilia

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2009 10:43 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Russian prosecutors initiate criminal investigation into the use of helicopters to hunt endangered goats by senior officials (there are only 200 Argali goats left in Russia)

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 2:09 AM | Add Comment

Harrowing cross-examination of four-year-old rape victim sparks demands for overhaul of British court system

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2009 11:08 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Sent in by Luciole Press' artiste extraordinaire, Diana Bonebrake: article, "Terry Nichols's Gut-Wrenching Pain"... domestic terrorist unhappy with his prison diet

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2009 2:26 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2009 11:43 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Top Pakistan judge to probe woman's flogging; Samar Minallah, who works for a Pakistani human rights organisation, said "The entire village knows she is innocent"

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2009 11:19 AM | Add Comment

UPDATE on previously featured topic: Afghan president orders review of marital law

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2009 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Follow-up to previously posted article.... Critics assail Afghan law that 'legalizes rape' -- "Women's basic freedoms are being sacrificed for the political and electoral gain of a few parliamentarians"

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2009 7:48 PM | Add Comment

Alaska and Florida consider bans on bestiality: "The act of forcing a living creature to engage in a sexual activity without the ability of consent cannot simply be viewed as a personal choice — no more than forcing a child or an impaired adult would be"

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2009 9:16 PM | Add Comment

Follow-up on article featured yesterday: "Former Nazi guard Josias Kumpf, involved in massacre of 8,000 Jews, set free after deportation from US as he cannot be prosecuted in Austria"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 11:43 PM | Add Comment

AP IMPACT: Many Iraqis held by US to go free

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 2:19 AM | Add Comment

Former Nazi guard living in Wisconsin deported; 83-year-old Josias Kumpf served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany (and more)

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 2:08 AM | Add Comment

Today is International Women's Day

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 12:56 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Good news: "FBI, police rescue child prostitutes around US"

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:45 PM | Add Comment

A Mexican kidnapping: Police apathy, few answers

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Thailand's king pardons jailed Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, who was accused of insulting the Thai royal family in a book that sold 7 copies

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 8:04 PM | Add Comment

Russian court acquits 3 over Politkovskaya murder: "This failure amounts to a human rights crisis" ... "The man prosecutors suspect of pulling the trigger is on the run; they have never identified the person they believe ordered her murder"

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2009 5:42 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

France's role in Holocaust legally recognized

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Rwanda genocide investigator, Dr. Alison Des Forges, among plane crash victims in Buffalo: "She was... the epitome of the human rights activist: principled, dispassionate, committed to the truth and to using that truth to protect ordinary people"

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:18 PM | Add Comment

Detention and torture center, a symbol of Argentina's "dirty war," now a United Nations human rights center

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2009 2:47 PM | Add Comment

Bushfire death toll "to reach 230'' (or higher) as Australian PM brands arsonists "mass murderers." One badly burned man carrying his burned infant daughter said, "I've lost my wife, I've lost my other kid, I just need you to save my daughter"

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2009 10:30 AM | Add Comment

Maryland college professor Leopold Munyakazi, accused of genocide in his home country of Rwanda, arrested for being in the U.S. illegally. One person reviewing the indictment said the time frame does not fit

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 12:39 AM | Add Comment

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a survivor of colon cancer, is hospitalized with pancreatic cancer

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Gang of children, some as young as 10, caught slowly roasting puppies over bonfire. A passerby intervened and rescued them, taking them to an RSPCA center. They were injured, but will be ok...

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 9:34 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

WWII Resistance fighter Andrée Peel marks her 104th birthday by breaking silence on wartime heroics; she saved the lives of more than 100 servicemen. "I rarely thought of my personal safety, I just acted and did what I believed was the right thing"

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 2:41 AM | Add Comment

SWAT teams routinely deployed in 911 fraud -- hackers using internet-based phone services for the hearing-impaired to send fake distress calls, which send SWAT teams to random homes across the nation

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2009 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Norm Coleman's lawsuit to reclaim his Senate seat against Al Franken depends on whether trial judges accept the Bush v. Gore decision, which gave Bush the presidency, as precedent

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2009 3:23 AM | Add Comment

American Indians could reap almost $3B in stimulus: "It really has the potential to lift our communities out of poverty"

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2009 12:23 PM | Add Comment

Prosecutor tells jurors: slain toddler Riley Ann Sawyers tried to stop her mother and stepfather from beating her to death by reaching out to her mother and saying, "I love you"

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2009 6:12 PM | Add Comment

"The people are watching, Mr. President" ... many websites created to track Obama's promises

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2009 3:32 PM | Add Comment

The real Slumdog Millionaires: Behind the cinema fantasy, mafia gangs are deliberately crippling children for profit

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2009 10:48 PM | Add Comment

Spanish police confiscate suspected fake Dalis

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2009 12:10 AM | Add Comment

Project tells story of Nazi forced labor; 590 audio and video interviews of former forced laborers from 26 countries available online at the German Historical Museum; the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future foundation; and Berlin's Free University

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2009 1:42 PM | Add Comment

Dutch MP Geert Wilders in freedom of speech trial for comparing Koran to Mein Kampf

Posted by kluciole at 1/21/2009 11:58 AM | Add Comment

Article sent in by Luciole Press contributor Dena Rash Guzman: Australian author Harry Nicolaides jailed for insulting Thai king in his 2005 book, "Verisimilitude." Only 50 copies of the book were published, and only seven were sold

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2009 9:28 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov (who once represented slain Anna Politkovskaya) and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed in Moscow, by masked gunman after Markelov's news conference to protest release of Russian colonel who strangled Chechen woman

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2009 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Madeleine McCann detectives uncover Spanish child porn network

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2009 11:38 AM | Add Comment

Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2009 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Murder riddle over 60s model Eva Rhodes, best known for film she did with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Rhodes ran an animal sanctuary, was threatened repeatedly and won a victory in the European Court of Human Rights because of police aggression against her

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2009 10:12 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Senate to consider expanding wilderness protection

Posted by kluciole at 1/11/2009 9:46 AM | Add Comment

Drug investigator says Alaskan authorities delayed the arrest of Sherry Johnston -- whose son Levi is engaged to Governor Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol -- until after the election in November

Posted by kluciole at 1/7/2009 9:43 PM | Add Comment

In an unexpected twist, Sen. Dianne Feinstein says Senate should seat Blagojevich's appointee, Roland Burris, because it is "simply the legal thing to do." Many disagree

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2009 5:12 PM | Add Comment

Obama's Justice appointments signal change in terror tactics

Posted by kluciole at 1/5/2009 11:25 PM | Add Comment

4 arrested in N. California gang rape/hate crime attack on lesbian

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2009 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Brazilian police have detained a rancher suspected in the slaying of rain forest activist and U.S. nun Dorothy Stang, for allegedly illegally acquiring titles to land. Stang defended the rights of poor settlers against powerful ranchers wanting their land

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2008 8:35 PM | Add Comment

New Law Gives License to Abuse in Italian Circuses? Concerns Are Growing Over the Abuse of Animals and People

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2008 12:07 PM | Add Comment

Hate Crime -- A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, brutally gang raped: "The level of trauma, physical and emotional, this victim has suffered is extreme." Richmond police are offering a $10,000 reward

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2008 9:12 PM | Add Comment

Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China; cats are both stolen off the streets (strays and pets) and raised on farms

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 11:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

German court rules too much time has passed to prove whether or not 105-year-old entertainer Johannes Heesters sang for Nazi guards at a concentration camp during World War II

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 2:45 AM | Add Comment

Daughter's testimony: murdered Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya saw suspicious strangers near her home in the weeks before she was killed

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:55 AM | Add Comment

Judge allows civil suit over co-worker's perfume; Susan McBride is severely sensitive to perfumes and other cosmetics and has "a potential claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act"

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:38 AM | Add Comment

Afghan teacher burned in acid attack on 15 schoolgirls and instructors wants the Afghan government to throw acid on attackers and then hang them; authorities have arrested 10 alleged Taliban militants for the Nov. 12 attack

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 12:51 PM | Add Comment

Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas this Friday; "(they) will not be arrested, and do not need to appear in person at the arraignment" says Presiding Judge Manuel Banales

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2008 10:22 PM | Add Comment

An AP photo of 2 little girls leads to a reunion in Congo; eleven-year-old Protegee had carried her sobbing niece on her back as they searched for relatives in a sea of people in eastern Congo

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Obama offers Eric Holder attorney general post, who says the United States must reverse "the disastrous course" set by the Bush administration

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 4:44 PM | Add Comment

Rwanda's Rose Kabuye in French custody, arrested due to suspected involvement in the assassination of Rwanda's former president, Juvenal Habyarimana, which set off the genocide in 1994

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 11:43 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Odi the bear enjoys splashing about for the first time after being freed from 10-year captivity in Romania; the brown bear was locked inside a rusty, cramped cage - hungry, confused and emaciated; now she is free and happy

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 11:32 PM | Add Comment

Obama planning US trials for Guantanamo detainees

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 4:02 AM | Add Comment

Casting information from Moses Brings Plenty: Need talent for film "The Lost Warrior" from Four Directions Talent ... check it out....

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 1:12 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Australia drops bid to take Iran to the International Court of Justice court over Israel comments

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2008 6:03 PM | Add Comment

ACORN controversy: Voter fraud or mudslinging? "By legal definition, to commit voter fraud means a person would have to present some kind of documentation at the polls (driver's license, etc.); submitting fake registration cards is another matter"

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2008 5:48 PM | Add Comment

Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers' lawsuit against God thrown out "over lack of address"

Posted by kluciole at 10/16/2008 11:11 AM | Add Comment

Draft security pact would give Iraq the right to prosecute American troops and Pentagon contractors accused of major, premeditated crimes committed outside U.S. bases and when they were not on duty

Posted by kluciole at 10/15/2008 9:37 AM | Add Comment
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