The European Parliament voted 342-274 on Thursday to approve a resolution encouraging its member countries not to extradite Edward Snowden to the US. In an affirmative act passed by a vote of 285-281, Parliament also called upon its member states to drop all criminal charges against Snowden and offer him protection as an “international human [...]
The US government’s case against five Guantanamo Bay detainees will continue to move forward after a US military judge on Thursday determined that one of the defendants may not fire his defense lawyer . US military judge James Pohl ruled that Walid Bin Atash did not show good cause to fire his lawyer. Judge Pohl [...]
Apple asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to review and overturn an appeals court ruling that the company conspired with book publishers to increase e-book prices. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit had ruled in June that Apple violated the Sherman Antitrust Act when it entered into deals with five major [...]
The Nanping Municipal Intermediate People’s Court of Fujian found in favor of two environmental groups on Thursday under a new environmental law. The court ordered defendants to restore destroyed vegetation and pay compensation for the damage that resulted from of an illegal mining expansion. This was the first environmental protection case decided since the Environmental [...]
There is evidence of recent unlawful police killings in Mexico said Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. The report suggests that police action which left eight civilians dead in the city of Apatzingán on January 6, and 42 civilians and one police officer dead in Tanhuato on May 22 was an “excessive use of force [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that more immigrants in detention should receive bond hearings and those held more than a year should get additional hearings. The court held that immigrants who have been detained for over a year should get bond hearings every six months where the federal government [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama issued an order on Wednesday prohibiting Alabama Governor Robert Bentley from terminating the provider agreement between Medicaid and Planned Parenthood Southeast (PPSE) . In August the governor advised the PPSE that Medicaid funding to its clinics in Birmingham and Mobile would be [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea Marzuki Darusman expressed deep concerns Wednesday regarding human rights violations in the country. His investigation revealed that workers from North Korea are being systematically deployed outside of the country in what amounted to forced labor conditions. Darusman’s report , which he presented Wednesday [...]
A rise in defense spending and a lack of oversight in Middle Eastern and North African governments puts these nations in a high risk for defense corruption, according to a report released Thursday by the Transparency International UK Defense and Security program . Private sector involvement in defense and a lack of transparency in countries [...]
Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz was released from detention and sent back to his home country of Mauritania, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Thursday. The Guantanamo Review Task Force, created in response to a 2009 presidential executive order to review the status of all detainees, unanimously approved Aziz for transfer. Mauritania [...]
