France's National Defence and Armed Forces Committee of the National Assembly has voted unanimously to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of brigadier general. This clears the way for the bill's adoption by the full Assembly in a plenary session on June 2.
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