The US government, on order from federal judge Gladys Kessler , has released eight redacted videos showing forced feedings at Guantanamo Bay prison. The videos, released to the US District Court for the District of Columbia as part of former prisoner Abu Wa’el Dhiab’s suit against the federal government, depict tube feeding conducted by medical [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday released a letter to Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour encouraging the strengthening of amendments proposed to the country’s 1960 penal code to better protect human rights. The articles, which are under review by Jordan’s Legislative and Opinion Bureau, would amend more than 180 of the code’s current articles. One [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday, gave the opening statement at the 30th session of the Human Rights Council in which he addressed, among other pressing human rights issues, the migrant crisis. In his statement, he commended the efforts of ordinary citizens in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Sweden [...]
A Ferguson, Missouri, reform panel on Monday released a report calling for the consolidation of police departments and municipal courts. The 16-member Ferguson Commission , established by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon following the shooting death of Michael Brown, an African American teenager, by a white police officer, is supported by Nixon but lacks power to [...]
Kentucky official Kim Davis, held in contempt for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses said Monday that she will not block her clerks from issuing the licenses. Davis was returning to work Monday following her release from jail last week. Davis warned, however, that the licenses would be issued without her authorization , which might [...]
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Saturday accepted the resignation of his prime minister and and his cabinet. The resignation comes after former Agriculture Minister was detained on Monday, after an investigation headed by the country’s prosecutor revealed that the minister and others received bribes amounting to over USD $1 million. The detention of former [...]
The president of Yemen on Sunday backed out of talks arranged by the United Nations (UN) with Shiite rebels. It was announced by his office that there would be no talks until the rebels accept a UN resolution that would require them to remove themselves from areas they’ve invaded and return all weapons taken from [...]
The US Attorney’s Office on Friday dismissed all charges against the former chairman of Temple University’s physics department, Xi Xiaoxing , for allegedly sharing American-made schematics of a device used in superconductor research to Chinese scientists. The charges were based on emails of technological specifications of the device, known as a pocket heater, that the [...]
Germany announced, on Sunday, that it is invoking temporary border controls at the nation’s southern border with Austria, after thousands of immigrants entered the country in recent days. Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière announced at a new conference that over ten-thousand people migrated to Munich Saturday and Sunday morning, and approximately 700 people arrived at [...]
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez on Friday was sentenced by a Venezuelan court to over 13 years in prison for inciting violence in nationwide protests in 2014. Lopez, a former Caracas borough mayor and Harvard University graduate, has long opposed leftist President Nicolás Maduro, an opposition he and his compatriots in the Popular Will party [...]
