The Egyptian government prohibited a prominent human rights lawyer from leaving the country on Thursday. Negad Borai, the lawyer who runs the United Group for Law intended to visit family in Jordan when airport authorities prevented him from boarding a plane. Borai’s name had been added to the country’s no-fly list by the public prosecutor’s [...]
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Ohio’s lethal injection protocol. The protocol, which uses three drugs, was rejected as the sedative midazolam was deemed insufficiently humane. The sedative has been used in numerous states that experienced problematic executions. Prisoners argued that use of the sedative violated their Eighth Amendment rights . US District Court Magistrate [...]
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello signed into law on Thursday a heavily-debated labor reform bill . The bill, known as the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Act, was enacted to stimulate the economy and create employment, but critics have raised concern that it infringes on workers’ rights. The law provides for flex-time work schedules and daily [...]
The UK High Court ruled on Thursday that Nigerian citizens affected by Shell oil spills cannot sue for relief in the UK. Lawyers for the Nigeria residents promised to appeal the judgment immediately, claiming that the court made its judgment before relevant evidence and testimony could be introduced. The people of the Niger Delta have [...]
A Kenyan court on Thursday ordered doctors to end a strike or risk being sent to jail. The union protest has lasted for more than six weeks and has sent the hospital system into a crisis . Justice Helen Wasilwa had declared the strike illegal, but thousands of doctors, part of the Kenya Medical Practitioners [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking a new federal rule that would prevent patients from using charitable assistance to buy private health insurance. The case was contesting a rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services . The Department of [...]
The UK Ministry of Justice released figures Thursday demonstrating a record number of suicides and other deaths in prisons in England and Wales in 2016. Many experts and politicians have attributed the findings to overcrowding and a cut in funding and staffing. UK Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss responded to the statistics: Since becoming Justice Secretary, [...]
The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) confirmed Thursday that it had arrested a Constitutional Court judge in an investigation involving three other suspects and as many as 10 other detainments. The investigation surrounds allegations that the judge and another official accepted bribes from the two remaining suspects in return for favorable rulings. The KPK intends [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday refused to force Wal-Mart to pay $80 million in a lawsuit where multiple former Wal-Mart truck drivers alleged the company owed them millions of dollars in back pay. Wal-Mart paid their drivers $42 for 10-hour “layover” shifts, time for which [...]
The House of Commons of the UK Parliament completed its first reading of HC Bill 132 on Thursday in accordance with Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which would empower the prime minister to trigger Brexit. This development follows the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday that the parliament must vote before the Brexit process [...]
