Posts Tagged ‘abuse of power’

Fujimori guilty of violation of human rights, gets 25-year jail term

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 18:11 By GSerrano

A Peruvian court has found Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori guilty for the massacres in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta that left 25 people dead. The court also accuses him of ordering the illegal detention of a journalist and a businessman in 1992.
The trial was held at a special-forces police base on the outskirts of [...]

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US Senate investigation: did the Bush administration abuse its powers of war?

Friday, February 27, 2009 9:06 By GSerrano

The public deficit is in the billions, the crisis is terrible, and unemployment is a clear and present danger. Amidst all these, Barack Obama is determined to lift the US up again. He promised the Congress that US will recover and emerge even stronger than before. Governmentally, though, he is facing dire straits as there [...]

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