The Chicago City Council on Wednesday voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Under the new ordinance, police officers may issue tickets to individuals found to be in possession of 10...
The Canada Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC) on Wednesday announced that it would make recommendations to improve military police investigations based on its four-year investigation into allegations of misconduct in handling Afghan detainees. The MPCC...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Wednesday denied a request by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue a temporary injunction barring Florida from continuing the...
Lawyers for alleged 9/11 conspirator and Guantanamo Bay detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Tuesday revealed that they have asked a UN official to investigate allegations of torture. Mohammed reportedly confessed...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) alleging that they violated...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday announced the launching of its Torture Database , a collection of more than 100,000 Bush-era documents recording "rendition, detention, and interrogation policies and practices." The database was...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday sent a letter to Bulgarian Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva urging her to denounce calls to violence by anti-gay groups in anticipation of a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
A UN independent commission on Wednesday told the UN Human Rights Council that government forces in Syria "may have been responsible" for the deaths of more than 100 civilians, including women and children, in Al-Houla, Syria last...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that a German law requiring landowners to allow hunting on their property is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights . The case...
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would impose sanctions on Russian officials linked to the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky . The bill...
