The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Monday challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s executive order restricting immigration from several Muslim-majority nations. The order specifically blocks immigrants from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Citing the “vulgar animosity” of the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Monday that the federal government, which took control of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) , may withhold certain documents sought in a suit filed by shareholders. The government fought the disclosure, claiming presidential privilege protected [...]
Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, on Monday urged US President Donald Trump not to reinstate torture policies. Melzer referenced the 2014 US Senate Intelligence Committee Report , which stated that the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) use of “enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence” and “rested on inaccurate [...]
The number of data breaches and files stolen worldwide reached a record high in 2016, according to cyber security firm Risk Based Security Monday. Inga Goddijn , Risk Based Security’s vice president, stated that “while the number of data breaches actually remained relatively flat from last year, the big story coming out of 2016 is [...]
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court acquitted 112 individuals suspected of taking part in the 2013 burning of 150 Christian homes and two churches in the Lahore’s Josep Colony. Ghulam Murtaza Chaudhry, the lawyer defending the suspects, stated that the suspects were acquitted because of a lack of evidence. Chaudhry stated the testimony of the plaintiffs was [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee on Monday strongly condemned the murder of Muslim lawyer Ko Ni, who was shot to death on Sunday outside of an airport in Myanmar. In a press release Lee said “I am shocked to the core by the senseless killing of a [...]
The government of Argentina made changes to the country’s immigration laws on Monday that will make the deportation of alleged criminals easier and restrict entry for those with an outstanding criminal case in other countries, according to a post in its Official Bulletin . In explaining the need for the changes, the posting cites a [...]
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at reducing the number of federal regulations. The executive order requires two regulations to be eliminated for every new one created and caps the costs of new regulations, which, according to White House officials, will spur economic growth. According to the executive order: Unless [...]
The attorneys general of 16 states, plus the District of Columbia, issued a joint statement on Sunday calling US President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration “un-American.” The attorneys general pledged to “work together to ensure the federal government obeys the Constitution, respects our history as a nation of immigrants, and does not unlawfully target [...]
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte , who was elected last May after campaigning on a promise to be extremely harsh on drug users , announced the suspension of the island nation’s “war on drugs” during a press conference Sunday night. In a statement to reporters on Monday, Philippines National Police chief Ronald dela Rosa confirmed that [...]
