A group of UN human rights experts spoke Friday on the subject of the death penalty and terrorism, calling the death penalty ineffective , and often times illegal, in deterring to terrorism. Speaking ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, the rights experts stated it has taken notice of governments relying upon the [...]
David Kaye, the top UN expert on free expression, stated Friday that reports that Yahoo allowed the US government to search hundreds of millions of customers’ e-mails “raise serious human rights concerns.” According to recent reports , Yahoo is alleged to have created software to scan all incoming e-mail for specific criteria provided by either [...]
Chinese officials announced Sunday that 70-year-old former legislator Bai Enpei has been sentenced to death for his part in taking bribes. The announcement comes as the government has continued its anti-graft campaign speared by President Xi Jingping to root out any and all corrupt practices in the region. The court found that the former legislator [...]
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in a press briefing on Friday welcomed the presentation of a draft bill on constitutional justice reforms in the Guatemala legislature. Stating that this “represents an historic opportunity to consolidate the remarkable progress the country has achieved in the fight against impunity and corruption [...]
Uruguay’s Foreign Minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, on Friday urged a former Guantanamo prisoner, Jihad Diyab, to call off his hunger strike, stating that Uruguay is attempting to transfer him to another country. Diyab is a Syrian national who was held for 12 years in Guantanamo without being formally charged and was released in 2014 along [...]
US District Judge Amos L. Mazzant III on Friday conditionally dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission‘s (SEC) suit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . The SEC alleged that Paxton misled investors in Servergy, Inc. , a business purporting to make a new computer network server. Paxton recruited friends and business professionals to invest a [...]
US District Judge Miranda Du on Friday issued a preliminary injunction in favor of the Pyramid Lake and Walker River Paiute Native American tribes in their challenge to Nevada’s voting procedure. The tribes alleged Washoe County, Mineral County and the Nevada Secretary of State were in violation of the Voting Rights Act by failing to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday reinstated a $120 million jury award owed to Apple by Samsung in a prolonged patent infringement case involving the companies’ competing smartphones. In 2014 a federal jury found Samsung guilty of infringing numerous Apple smartphone patents such as the iPhone’s slide-to-lock, autocorrect, and online [...]
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Friday issued reports on Nauru, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, New Zealand, South Africa and Suriname following a committee session held last month. The committee’s independent experts commended the nations’ efforts to push laws and treaties intended to protect children’s rights and address human rights violations [...]
