Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Sudanese government on Monday to immediately release peaceful protesters from detention or grant them full due process. The demonstrators were arrested while protesting Sudan's 2018 budget, which triples the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the government of Sri Lanka on Monday for not repealing its "Draconian" counterterrorism law. HRW accused the government of using the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to arbitrarily detain...
Military judge James Pohl ruled on Friday that no wrongdoing occurred when the prosecution destroyed a CIA secret prison, or "black site," on Pohl's orders. At the time Pohl gave the prosecution permission to destroy the...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Monday struck down the Congressional Redistricting Act of 2011 as violating the state constitution. The plaintiffs in the League of Women Voters v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania accused...
The Trump administration announced in a letter to state Medicaid directors on Friday that it will be rescinding the Obama administration's guidance that made it more difficult for state Medicaid programs to refuse to cover...
The US Supreme Court on Friday added a Maryland redistricting case, Benisek v. Lamone, to its merits docket on Friday, along with six other cases . While the case was previously being considered on...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in 11 cases on Thursday. Dalmazzi v. United States Cox v. United States , and Ortiz v. United States are three cases...
Deep Green Resistance , a direct action environmental group, filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking the US District Court for the District of Colorado to grant personhood status to the Colorado River. If personhood status is...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Maine and Planned Parenthood on Wednesday challenged a Maine law requiring abortions to be performed by a physician. 22 MRS §1598 reads "Any person not so...
Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday detailing the violence carried out by the Ethiopian security forces during the Irreecha festival, the annual harvest celebration observed by the country's ethnic Oromo people. According to the...
