The Internet has experienced a 20 percent increase in militant and hate content over the past year, according to a report released on Monday by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance . The report, titled "Digital Terrorism and Hate 2010," cites to the low levels of regulation of Internet content as one of the enabling [...]
The trial of 14 members of a neo-Nazi group, Nomad 88, opened Monday before the criminal court of Evry, in the Parisian suburbs. Founded in 2008 to "purge" the suburbs, the group gained public attention in May 2008 when three members went on a shooting spree in an area with a strong population of immigrant [...]
Vietnamese authorities on Monday released a Catholic priest and leading rights activist from Hanoi prison. Father Nguyen Van Ly was released early Monday morning and has been reunited with his family in Hue. Ly had been arrested and charged in 2007 under Article 88 of Vietnam's Penal Code , which provides for the incarceration of [...]
A Bill to promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end "too big to fail", to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes, US Senate Banking Committee, March 15, 2010 . Reported [...]
UN Special Rapporteur for North Korea Vitit Muntarbhorn said Monday that the North Korean human rights situation is continuing to deteriorate. Presenting his report to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) , Muntarbhorn noted that any attempt to halt human rights violations in North Korea would require Security Council (SC) action. The rapporteur also said [...]
The Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern , on Sunday proposed holding a referendum later this year to remove the criminal offense of blasphemy from the Irish Constitution . Blasphemy is a punishable offense under section 40 of the constitution, but the language of the text had been deemed too vague [...]
The former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Monday criticized the government's treatment of detained opposition leader General Sarath Fonseka . Sarath Nanda Silva, who retired from the Sri Lankan Supreme Court last year, accused the government of using the military justice system to prevent Fonseka from participating in the upcoming [...]
The US military on Monday transferred Camp Taji , one of the two remaining detention facilities under US control, to Iraqi authorities. Located approximately 25 kilometers north of Baghdad, Taji currently houses about 2,900 detainees held on arrest warrants, detention orders, or as convicted prisoners. About 100 detainees will remain in US custody. During the [...]
The Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) on Sunday approved an amendment to the electoral law mandating equal representation for rural and urban citizens. The electoral reform was adopted at the close of the Third Session of the Eleventh National People's Congress and was hailed by the People's Daily, a publication of the Central Committee of [...]
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled Sunday that female judges can serve on the State Council (Maglis id-Dowla), an administrative court system with jurisdiction over cases involving the state. In its ruling, the court emphasized the equality of all citizens . Last month, the general assembly of the State Council voted to bar the appointment of [...]
