The High Court in Dublin on Wednesday ordered several Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to file-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) and its proxy servers within 30 days. TPB is one of the largest free providers of BitTorrent material in the world, reporting more than 36 billion dollars in revenue last year from [...]
Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow , Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday reiterated the UN Security Council’s request for member states to help bring to justice nine fugitives allegedly responsible for war crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Jallow urged the men to turn themselves in and stated that there [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that an Oklahoma man had stated a First Amendment compelled speech claim when he challenged Oklahoma’s “rain god” license plates. Oklahoma’s standard vehicle license plates depict a sculpture of a Native American shooting an arrow toward the sky, “hoping the ‘spirit world’ or [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Nebraska filed a lawsuit Monday against Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles challenging the governor’s decision to deny driver’s licenses to young people who have been legally authorized to remain in the country by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [...]
The US Department of Justice and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that neither agency will seek to continue the appeal of a ruling that allows women of all ages to access emergency contraception without a prescription. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused to stay the ruling last Wednesday. [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced that military commission charges have been filed against Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi . Al-Hadi is an Iraqi prisoner who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba since 2007. The official charge sheet alleges, among other things, that al-Hadi was a superior commander for [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in conjunction with the New York Civil Liberties Union filed suit Tuesday against the National Security Agency (NSA) challenging its recently revealed phone data collection. As a Verizon business network services customer, the ACLU argues that the program violates the rights of free speech and association as well as [...]
A Zimbabwe court on Monday began the trial of Beatrice Mtetwa, a prominent human rights lawyer charged with obstruction of justice and unruly behavior towards police forces. Mtetwa was arrested in March for allegedly interfering with a police search of her clients’ office, but she contends that she was only asking the officers to produce [...]
The High Court in London ruled Tuesday that the British government acted legally when it set up the Chagos Conservation Trust (CCT) in 2010 on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Chagos . In 1965, the UK government severed the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius just three years before freeing it from colonial rule [...]
A Pakistani court on Tuesday granted bail to former president Pervez Musharraf in the case of his 2007 detention of senior judges. The detention came after Musharraf imposed emergency rule in Pakistan. Musharraf, however, must remain under house arrest due to an additional case pending against him for the murder of an ethnic Baluch nationalist [...]
