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Havana, Cuba
Headquartered in the
nation’s capital, the
state-run daily newspaper,
Granma, reported that
the Cuban government
will give pay raises to over
440,000 medical workers,
the Associated Press
reports. Beneficiaries of the
pay hikes include health care
professionals: multi-specialty
physicians will receive a salary
raise to $67 per month, up
from $26, and beginning nurses
will be paid $25 per month, up
from $ 13. According to Granma,
“the elimination of 109,000 jobs
considered to be redundant by
the government in the past four
years makes the (planned pay
raises) possible.”
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The Hague, Netheiiands The Group of 8 (G8), an assembly of the world’s eight leading industrialized nations, is now the G7.
On March 24, U.S. government officials told CNN that President Barack Obama and other world leaders have suspended Russia’s
G8 membership in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea. During a news conference at The Hague,
Netherlands, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov downplayed the eviction. Insisting that “the G8 is an informal organization” and
“being kicked out of G8 would be no big deal,” according to CNN.
Cairo, Egypt On
March 24, the Upper
Egypt court convicted
and sentenced to death
529 alleged members
of the outlawed
, Muslim Brotherhood.
I The charges? Murdering
a police commander.
According to The Wall
Street Journal, the sentence
is likely to be appealed but
serves as evidence of the
military-backed regime’s
determination to crush
the once-powerful
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’death sentence) is a
grotesque example of
the shortcomings and
the selective nature of
Egypt’s justice system,”
•:Amnesty International
said in a news report.
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Southern Indian Ocean After an 18-day investigation that commenced on March 8, satellite
experts led by the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch confirmed that the Malaysian Airlines
Flight 370 is submerged in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia. According to
New York Daily News, on March 24, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that none of
the 239 people on board survived the incident. A day later, citing “delays and deception,” victims’
families along with their supporters stormed the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing, China, and shouted,
“Tell the truth! Return our relatives!” New York Daily News reports.
Civil Rights groups descend on Florida,
protest unjust ‘stand your ground’ law
BY ROBERT PACHECO
Staff Writer
The verdict in the Trayvon Martin murder
case was not the end of a story; it was the
beginning of a movement.
Since the jury from that case found
defendant George Zimmerman innocent, many
have derided Florida's "stand your ground"
law as symbolic of prejudice against blacks in
the U.S. legal system.
"The law that Zimmerman's defense
employed is perhaps the most debated law
today," said Jonathan Ross, second-year law
student at American University Washington
College of Law. "It harkens back to Jim Crow
and often vindicates due to how abstractly the
law is worded."
"Stand your ground" has been used
successfully in the defense of white men
accused of killing unarmed black men, most
recently in the case against Michael Dimn,
who fired 10 bullets at an SUV filled with black
teenagers playing loud hip-hop music.
According to The Associated Press, the
Horida law states that people who "are not
involved in illegal activity have the right to
stand their ground and meet force with force,
including deadly force, if they reasonably
believe it's necessary to avoid death or great
bodily harm."
The law has been referenced in the defense
for Marissa Alexander, a mother of three, who
fired a single bullet into her kitchen ceiling two
years ago after being attacked by her estranged
husband, Rico Gray.
Gray reacted violently after receiving a
restraining order and confronted Alexander,
bringing their children to his violent
confrontation.
However, unlike cases wherein white
defendants killed black victims, Alexander is a
black woman who killed no one.
Judge James Daniel's verdict that Alexander
should receive a 20-year sentence added more
controversy to the "stand your groimd" debate.
I
Upon appeal, the appellate court found
Alexander's sentence too harsh and ruled
that the judge had ignored that her case fit the
"stand your ground" law parameters.
In Alexander's retrial, however, Florida State
Attorney General Angela Corey is seeking a
sentence of 60 years, a ruling that would keep
Alexander in jail until she is in her 90s.
On March 10, dvil rights activist Reverend
A1 Sharpton led a march on the Florida state
capital to protest the law.
"To have laws that tell people that they
can shoot first and then ask questions later is
a violation of our dvil rights," said Sharpton,
according to The Assodated Press. "I believe
that the law is inherently wrong.
"The law in effect says that, based on your
imagination — if you imagine I'm a threat —
you have the right to kill me," Sharpton added.
Also partidpating in the march were
Trayvon Martin's parents and members of a
group seeking Alexander's release.
Has the "stand your ground" law proved to
be a failure? If so, is the failure rooted in the
law's application? Or, does the controversy
arise from the State Attorney General's
handling of these cases?
"I see the issue as being in the application
of these laws," said Aaron Fetrow, lawyer and
dean of students and vice president for student
affairs. "There is a systemic situation regarding
the application of the law towards economic
and radal lines within the legal system. But,
that goes far beyond 'stand your ground' —
it permeates to ... access to a legal team and
therefore the application of justice."
According to U.S. Navy veteran and gun
advocate Darmy Nunez, the issue concerns
gim control just as much as radsm.
"Responsible gun ownership means that
your weapon is a deterrent to criminals," said
Nunez in an interview with The Guilfordian.
"However, without responsible laws that
ensure that criminal behavior is met with
proper sentendng, the law becomes merely an
avenue for excusable murder."