A Kenyan lawyer was reportedly deported on Tuesday after being charged with treason for attending the symbolic presidential inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga. The lawyer, Miguna Miguna, was to appear in court under orders from the High Court, but was instead deported overnight after an invalid law, applied by another court, caused him to [...]
The Ohio House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a Senate bill that would reform current redistricting policies. The proposed constitutional amendment provides the legislature the opportunity to draw the state’s congressional districts and approve them with a three-fifths vote, including at least one-third of the minority party. Should the map fail to garner sufficient support [...]
Australian officials are abusing prisoners with disabilities, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities are at especially high risk, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. The report , titled, “I Needed Help, Instead I Was Punished”: Abuse and Neglect of Prisoners with Disabilities in Australia, set forth findings from research conducted from June [...]
UN expert Paulo Pinheiro on Tuesday reported civilian violence in Syria is dramatically increasing, causing internal displacement and an estimated quarter of a million civilians to flee the country. Pinheiro, Chairperson of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria , condemned the violence saying the parties responsible are failing to uphold their obligations under international [...]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday explained that traditional district-drawing criteria mandated the court’s decision last month to strike down the state’s 2011 electoral map. While the court delivered its order finding that the electoral plan violated the Pennsylvania Constitution on January 22, it did not provide a majority opinion until Wednesday. The 138-page majority [...]
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed into law an anti-defamation bill that prohibits blaming Poland for assisting in Holocaust crimes. The Act on the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation imposes up to three years in prison for associating Holocaust crimes to Poland. The bill [...]
The House passed two measures in sexual misconduct procedure and rules Tuesday in a unanimous roll call, including a bill that addresses changes to how complaints are addressed on Capitol Hill, and a resolution that changes House rules specifically. The first measure is a bill amending the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 , which still [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday criticized Indonesia’s increasing public attitude of religious intolerance and urged the government to address it. Zeid also criticized the country’s blasphemy laws as “ill-defined” and described them as a weapon to oppress minority religious groups. In the country’s current political climate, the High [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed an order to redraw certain North Carolina congressional districts. The US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina invalidated several districts in the state last fall. The districts in question had already been redrawn following a previous order from the same court. This time, the court [...]
Three justices of the Maldives Supreme Court on Tuesday annulled a controversial ruling the court had issued last Thursday that required the government to immediately release a number of political prisoners. The reversal came a few hours after government forces arrested the two other justices of the Supreme Court, including the chief justice, on corruption [...]
