Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday claiming that Israel’s new detention facility violates an order of the Supreme Court of Israel , which ruled in September that the detention of undocumented immigrants for up to three years without trial was unconstitutional. In response, the Israeli Cabinet adopted an amendment to the Law for [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered the release of a foreign policy document by the Obama administration in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) . In 2011, the Center for Effective Government (CEF) , formerly OMB Watch, filed a FOIA request for the release [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Azadeh Shahshahani of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia addresses injustices faced by migrant workers even as a holiday is celebrated in support of them…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that prosecutions for denying that the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was a genocide are an attack on freedom of expression. The court called the right to openly discuss questions of a sensitive and controversial nature one of the fundamental aspects of [...]
The Obama administration announced Monday that the Social Security Administration (SSA) will begin processing payments to surviving spouses of same-sex married couples . In a brief statement, Press Officer LaVenia LaVelle said, “I am pleased to announce that, effective today, Social Security is processing some widow’s and widower’s claims by surviving members of same-sex marriages [...]
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on Monday urged Cambodia to set up an independent national body to monitor detention centers in order to fulfill its international obligations under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) . Cambodia ratified the protocol to the convention in 2007, which required Cambodia to establish [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the National Security Agency (NSA) program of collecting phone call data is likely unconstitutional. Judge Richard Leon ruled in a lawsuit brought by activist attorney and former government prosecutor Larry Klayman. Klayman, founder of the political advocacy group Freedom Watch [...]
The Turkish court in Diyarbakir on Monday rejected bids to be released from pre-trial detention by two members of the parliament for the Kurdish Peace and Democratic Party (BDP), Gulser Yildirim and Ibrahim Ayhan. Yildirim and Ayhan have been detained since 2010 when they were each charged with links to the militant Kurdistan Workers Party [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life Insurance that a woman was not entitled to disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) because the applicable statute of limitations had run. Petitioner Julie Heimeshoff argued that her claim was timely because it was made less than three years after [...]
A court in Saudi Arabia on Sunday sentenced political activist Omar al-Saeed to four years in prison and 300 lashes for urging Saudi Arabia to become a constitutional monarchy. Al-Saeed is the fourth member of the pro-democracy group Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) to be imprisoned for criticizing the Saudi royal family . [...]
