The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Saturday released a statement reacting to statements by federal officials that the recently apprehended Boston bombing suspect will not be read his Miranda rights before being interrogated. A US Department of Justice official announced on Friday that the government will be invoking the public safety exception to not [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday called on the Saudi government to immediately end the 18-month prosecution of human rights lawyer Walid Abu al-Khair . Abu al-Khair is known for his defense of other human rights activists, including a group of a dozen men known for demanding human rights and political reform in Saudi Arabia. [...]
Judge Jazmin Barrios, the Guatemala judge presiding over the trial of former president Efrain Rios Montt in Guatemala City, began the trial despite a prior ruling annulling the case. Judge Patricia Flores, who was recently reinstated to the case after being recused from it since February 2012, ruled to suspend Montt’s trial on Thursday, stating [...]
A Pakistani judge ruled Saturday that former president Pervez Musharraf would be held in custody for two weeks until his next hearing on May 4. Pakistan’s chief commissioner later declared Musharraf’s estate on the edge of Islamabad a temporary jail, allowing Musharraf to remain under house arrest until his trial. The ruling comes in light [...]
A judge for the Dane County Circuit Court on Friday allowed a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s controversial collective bargaining law to proceed, despite objections from the state’s Department of Justice (DOJ) . The Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association (WLEA) , a public sector union, filed the lawsuit in November, contending that the Budget Repair Bill’s limitations on [...]
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Friday signed the strict anti-abortion legislation into law. The legislation prohibits abortions based on the baby’s sex, prevents abortion providers from receiving certain tax breaks and proclaims that life begins at fertilization. The provision dealing with tax breaks is designed to prevent the state from subsidizing abortions in any way. [...]
The genocide trial for former Guatemala president Efrain Rios Montt came to a halt Thursday, potentially discarding nearly a year-and-a-half of court proceedings. According to Judge Patricia Flores, all actions taken on Rios Montt’s case since she was recused in November 2011 are invalid . However, Guatemala attorney general Claudia Paz y Paz says Flores’ [...]
An Argentinian appeals court on Wednesday struck down key parts of a 2009 media law that was designed to dismantle the media empire Clarin . The controversial bill, which would force Clarin to sell profitable business assets, was signed into law by President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner in October 2009. Kirchner claimed that Clarin was [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dissmissed a copyright infringement lawsuit by Viacom against Google’s YouTube . Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, MTV and VH1, was seeking $1 billion in damages as well as an injunction against YouTube for clips that were posted on the [...]
The US House of Representatives passed a controversial cybersecurity bill on Thursday that allows corporations to share customers’ personal data with other firms and the US government, even in the face of a company contract prohibiting such activity. Known as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the legislation was approved by a vote [...]
