The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein issued a statement Friday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Yemen war and continued international support in ending the conflict. Zeid said over 13,000 civilians have been killed or wounded in the last two years, and that 21 Million Yemenis, which is [...]
Lawyers for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl filed a motion to dismiss on Thursday with the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces . The defense attorneys claim that President Trump’s statements during the campaign trail that Bergdahl is a traitor who should be executed has prevent Bergdahl from receiving a fair trial. The defense [...]
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution Friday to investigate potential human rights violations in Myanmar. The fact-finding mission will be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council with the purpose of establishing the facts and circumstances of the alleged human rights violations by military and security forces. The resolution calls [...]
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was released from prison on Friday after six years in custody. The planned release was announced earlier this month after Mubarak was cleared of a conspiracy to murder protesters during the 2011 uprising, for which he was sentenced to life in prison in 2012. According to a report by Amnesty [...]
The US House Committee on Ethics announced Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a criminal investigation into Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) for potentially unlawful campaign spending . According to an earlier report by the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) , Hunter allegedly may have “converted tens of thousands of dollars of campaign [...]
The US Senate voted 50-48 Thursday to repeal current privacy rules for Internet service providers (ISPs). In a vote meant to further deregulation goals, the Senate passed a resolution to undo privacy rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during the Obama administration. The privacy rules, which had yet to go into effect, would [...]
Germany Justice Minister Heiko Maas announced Wednesday that the country’s cabinet has approved a measure to pardon and provide compensation to approximately 50,000 men convicted under a Nazi-era law against homosexuality. The law, paragraph 175 of Germany’s criminal code, was put in place in 1871, broadened under the Nazi regime, and was used to convict [...]
The North Carolina legislature on Thursday overrode Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that makes state judicial elections partisan. House Bill 100 (HB100) will make all judicial elections partisan beginning in 2018, marking a return to partisan judicial elections unseen in North Carolina for nearly 20 years. Party primaries will now elect judicial nominees, [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday held a new round of hearings on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Thursday’s hearings involved testimony from 28 outside witnesses . This list included retired judges from the US Courts of Appeal, law professors at top universities, leaders of advocacy groups and several of his [...]
The US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on Thursday released a report finding that a significant portion of federal law enforcement resources were directed to immigration-related offenses. The analysis showed that half of all federal arrests in 2014 were related to immigration, with 61 percent of them occurring in five districts along US-Mexico border. BJS [...]
