UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday warned about child torture and urged a commitment to end it. At the 43rd session of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture , Zeid stated, “neither national security nor the fight against terrorism, the threat of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday overturned a district court decision that allowed Google to ignore a subpoena. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood began investigating Google in 2012 for failing to do enough to prevent crime. He issued a 79-page subpoena, but Google refused to produce the requested information, instead [...]
Lawyers for several public school teachers in California requested on Friday that the US Supreme Court rehear the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association after a ninth justice is appointed. Last month, an equally divided court affirmed a 2014 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in favor of union [...]
Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Court issued a nonbailable arrest warrant on Friday against former president and military leader Pervez Musharraf for detaining more than 60 judges after declaring a state of emergency in 2007. The proceedings were held without Musharraf , who left the country for Dubai after a court removed him from the exit control list [...]
Wisconsin trial judge William Foust on Friday struck down a Wisconsin law that would bar unions from reaching agreements to force private-sector workers to pay the equivalent of union dues. Signed into law last year, the “Right to Work” law was deemed an unconstitutional seizure of union property, as the law still required unions to [...]
A Belgian federal prosecutor announced Friday that five Islamic State (IS) members have been arrested in connection with the March 22 Belgium terror attacks that took 32 lives. Among those detained was Mohamed Abrini , who is believed to be the only surviving perpetrator of the attack on the Brussels airport. At the press conference, [...]
The Alabama Senate approved a bill that would create a commission to review claims of innocence by death row inmates. The legislation was approved by a 20-6 vote and would create a remedy for those inmates who have exhausted their appeals. The commission would review claims by death row inmates who claim “complete innocence” of [...]
Myanmar authorities on Friday released 69 student activists who had been jailed for more than a year without trial. Tharrawaddy Township Judge Chit Myat announced that the 69 students were free without charges after being imprisoned for protesting for academic freedom. All those imprisoned from the March 2015 protest that was violently crushed by policewere [...]
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) confirmed Friday that it has opened a criminal investigation into Tata Steel , looking into activity that took place at the Specialty Steels unit in the UK. Tata Steel is headquartered in India, but earns nearly 70% of its revenue from foreign business operations. While the company is not [...]
US District Judge Christina Snyder granted a permanent injunction on Wednesday requiring the removal of a depiction of a Latin cross from the Los Angeles, California (LA) county seal. The seal was changed in 2004 to remove all religious symbols and the cross was then reinstated in 2014. It was suggested in 2014 to add [...]
