Amnesty International (AI) announced on Monday that it has filed a complaint against the UK government over concerns that the country’s intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) unlawfully accessed AI’s communications. Following disclosures by Edward Snowden about the US PRISM program run by the National Security Agency (NSA) , it was revealed that GCHQ may [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper the court heard arguments on “Whether Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) immunity may be denied without a determination that the air carrier’s disclosure was materially false.” The ATSA requires airlines and their employees to report to [...]
UN human rights experts on Monday called on the Iraqi government to provide information on seven residents of Camp Ashraf who were allegedly abducted in September amidst an attack that left 52 people dead . The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances demanded that the Iraqi government “speed up the investigations in order [...]
Two UN human rights experts on Monday urged the Bangladesh government to halt the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah, based on concerns that he did not receive a fair trial. The Supreme Court of Bangladesh sentenced Mollah to death without appeal in September, and his execution could occur as early [...]
Beijing prosecutors on Monday said that they received from police a letter of recommendation to bring charges against Xu Zhiyong for disrupting public order. Xu was arrested in August for organizing demonstrations and campaigning for Chinese officials to reveal their wealth, in an attempt to combat corruption. Xu is a law lecturer at the Beijing [...]
A Kuwaiti court on Monday acquitted 70 opposition members of charges related to the 2011 storming of the parliament. At least nine of the acquitted were former members of parliament. The 2011 demonstrations over allegations of high-level corruption prompted Kuwaiti authorities to tighten security measures nationwide. At the time, opposition lawmakers sought to question then [...]
Pakistan’s military partially complied with a Supreme Court ruling on Saturday by producing before the court several prisoners out of the hundreds it has been secretly holding without charges. Human rights lawyers and relatives of the prisoners have fought to obtain information about the detainees, some of whom disappeared from jails while others were directly [...]
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Sunday stating that although there was an increase of reported acts of violence against women to the Afghan authorities in the past year, prosecutions and convictions under the landmark Elimination of Violence against [...]
A misdemeanor court in Egypt on Sunday acquitted 155 protesters who were arrested in connection with the violent clashes with police in October. The court dismissed the charges of assaulting a police officer and vandalism. This group was specifically tied to violence on October 6 that killed almost 50 people. Thousands remain in jail awaiting [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday denied an application to stay the merger of US Airways and American Airlines without issuing an opinion. The group of consumers filed the application based on similar antitrust claims already brought and settled by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) . Specifically, the individuals claimed this [...]
