The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday denounced a deadly Iraqi military raid on a camp housing Iranian exiles. At least 34 people, including women, were shot to death or trampled by military vehicles during the Iraqi military’s April 8 operation at Camp Ashraf. The camp is composed of [...]
The Obama administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to determine whether police need warrants to track a suspect’s movement using global position systems (GPS) technology. The government is appealing last year’s lower court decision that prohibits the use of warrantless GPS technology . In that decision, the US Court of Appeals for the [...]
Chilean Judge Mario Carroza on Friday ordered the exhumation of former president Salvador Allende as part of investigations into his death that began in January. The order follows a request for a new autopsy of the former president from Allende’s daughter, Senator Isabel Allende, and other relatives who want to determine the causes of his [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday ruled en banc against same-sex adoptive parents seeking an amended Louisiana birth certificate that listed both unmarried men as the parents of the child. In 2006, Oren Adar and Mickey Ray Smith adopted their child in New York, where unmarried couples can legally adopt [...]
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee announced Friday that he is suing members of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s regime over allegations that he was tortured by the government while in Egyptian custody. Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen, was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US. He was released from [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday found former Croatian Colonel General Ante Gotovina guilty of several counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes for his involvement in the 1995 Operation Storm . Gotovina, along with former military leaders Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, had been on trial since 2008 [...]
The Delaware House of Representatives voted 26-15 on Thursday in favor of a bill allowing same-sex civil unions within the state. According to the legislation, individuals entering into a civil union “shall enjoy all the same rights, benefits, protections, and shall be subject to all the same responsibilities, as married persons under Delaware law.” The [...]
The Georgia General Assembly passed an Arizona-style immigration bill on Thursday that requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they have probable cause to believe has committed a criminal offense and requires businesses to use E-Verify to check the immigration status of potential employees. The bill also creates a new criminal offense of [...]
Idaho Governor CL “Butch” Otter on Wednesday signed into law a bill that would prohibit most abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. The bill had passed the state legislature earlier this month. The new law allows for limited exceptions to the ban, such as in the case of a risk of death or substantial physical [...]
Gerolf Hagens : “The trial against Geert Wilders has received worldwide attention, yet many outsiders are unaware of its underlying issues. From the start, the trial has raised a lot of questions and doubts, both from people who agree with the prosecution of Wilders, as well as from those opposed. The underlying controversy started around [...]
