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Bali nightclub bombers moved to higher security prison

October 11, 2005 10:02:00 AM

Indonesia moved the three masterminds behind the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings to a higher security jail Tuesday to wait out their time on death row, just one day before the third anniversary of the...

October 5, 2005 02:26:00 PM

Victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings are calling for the Indonesian government to immediately execute those in prison for carrying out the attacks. After new coordinated bombings in two tourist areas last...

August 17, 2005 09:57:00 AM

Eighteen people convicted in the 2002 bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, have had their sentences cut by several months to celebrate Indonesia's Independence Day, prison wardens announced Wednesday. It is an Indonesian custom to...

March 21, 2005 09:05:00 AM

Ansyaad Mbai, the head of the Counterterrorism division of Indonesia's Coordinating Ministry for Political and Security Affairs, announced Monday that the Indonesian government plans to outlaw the al-Qaida-linked radical Islamic group Jemaah Islamiyah [MIPT...

March 3, 2005 08:05:00 AM

An Indonesian court Thursday found radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir guilty of conspiracy to commit the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people. The five-judge panel found that although Ba'asyir was not directly...

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President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

Learn more about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.