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UN rights experts urge Iraq to halt mass executions

Three UN Special Rapporteurs “expressed alarm” Friday at reports that approximately 50 prisoners “convicted of terrorism-related crimes in Iraq” would be executed on Monday. This planned mass execution is not the first occurrence. Last month 21 prisoners on death row at Nasiriyah central prison were executed. On November 16 an additional 21 prisoners were executed. […]

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Belarus police detains more than 200 people in anti-government protests

Human rights group Vesna-96 said on Sunday that more than 200 people have been arrested by the Belarus police during crackdowns on protests following the re-election of President Aleksander Lukashenko in August. Elections in Belarus have been condemned by both citizens of the country and international human rights groups since 2004, with opposition leaders often […]

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Former Canada high court justice calls RCMP culture ‘toxic’ for women in sexual harassment report

Former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Michel Bastarache on Thursday released a report on sexual harassment in the Canadian federal police force, the RCMP, that described its internal institutional culture as toxic, misogynistic and homophobic. After conducting interviews with RCMP members, Bastarache concluded that the force’s working environment was heavily sexualized. Many women were victims of […]

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New Jersey enacts law to protect judges’ personal information from public disclosure

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill on Friday which protects the home addresses and telephone numbers of judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers from public disclosure. The bill amends the Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) to exclude the portion of any document which discloses the home address of any active or retired judge, […]

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Federal court dismisses Trump campaign attempt to discard Pennsylvania mail-in votes

The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Saturday dismissed a Trump campaign lawsuit that sought to invalidate nearly 7 million legally cast votes. This decision came on the same morning that a federal court in Georgia denied a similar attempt to disenfranchise voters. The Trump campaign brought their lawsuit in Pennsylvania […]

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SCOTUS postpones oral argument over Mueller report and adds two police conduct cases to docket

The US Supreme Court announced Friday that it would delay oral argument in Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary, a case involving a dispute over censored information contained in the redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The request to postpone the oral […]

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Federal court blocks new Trump administration asylum restrictions from going into effect

The US District Court for the Northern District of California granted a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking new procedures and limitations for refugees seeking asylum from taking effect. The rule proposed by the Trump administration adds new bars to eligibility for asylum. It required that convictions modified, vacated, or clarified for rehabilitative purposes or made […]

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US Tax Court rules Coca-Cola improperly moved profits internationally and must pay $3B tax bill

The United States Tax Court has upheld two different Internal Revenue Service (IRS) adjustments against Coca-Cola, increasing the company’s taxable income for the 2007-2009 years by a combined total of more than $9 billion and subjecting it to a tax bill of over $3 billion. The case decided Wednesday concerns methodology for reallocating profits between […]

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Amnesty calls on Poland police to cease violent response to abortion law protests

In a public statement released Friday, Amnesty International called on Polish police to put an end to its violent response to those protesting the Constitutional Tribunal’s recent tightening of abortion law. Amnesty expressed concern at a number of police practices employed in the wake of the controversial decision. Specifically, it condemed the use of pepper […]

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More youth held in custody before trial as UK criminal justice system struggles under Covid court closures

The number of young people awaiting trial and sentencing in England and Wales has doubled over the past year due to courts being temporarily closed due to Covid-19, according to a new report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation. The report released Wednesday showed that there are concerns that children in prolonged uncertainty could be […]

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China spokesperson denounces cyber-crime threat accusations in Canadian intelligence report

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lin Jian has denounced as “groundless” assertions in a recent Canadian national cyber threat assessment report that named China, as well as Iran, North Korea and Russia, as its greatest cyber-crime risks, fearing espionage and attacks on critical Canadian infrastructure. The report by the Canadian Communications Security Establishment […]

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EU top court finds fleeing military draft is ground for asylum

The European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that foreign military draft evaders could be entitled to asylum in the EU. In what was technically a preliminary ruling in an ongoing case, the court held that there was a “strong presumption” that people escaping military service in violent regimes were entitled to asylum, with […]

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Appeals court rules Tennessee can prohibit abortions for gender, race, or Down Syndrome reasons

The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay Friday of a lower court injunction that prohibited the enforcement of a Tennessee law banning abortion because of gender, race, or a Down Syndrome diagnosis. The decision comes as part of a lawsuit filed by Tennessee abortion providers seeking to block several restrictive abortion laws […]

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Human Rights Watch report highlights impunity and continued lawlessness in post-conflict Nepal

Human Rights Watch highlighted continuing enforced disappearances, rape, torture and unlawful killings in Nepal 14 years after the conclusion of a conflict between Maoist insurgents and the Nepalese government in a report issued Friday. HRW noted that out of 286 people recommended to face legal consequences by Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), only 30 […]

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Federal court denies attempt to stop certification of Georgia election results

A federal court in Georgia denied a motion Thursday seeking a temporary restraining order to block the certification of presidential election results from the state. The lawsuit had been filed by L. Lin Wood, Jr., an Atlanta lawyer and supporter of President Trump, best known for representing Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused of the […]

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Australia government welcomes committee proposal to create simplified single family court structure

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Australian government “welcomed” a recommendation from the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee (the Committee) Thursday to create a single family court structure for the country. The Committee conducted a 12-month inquiry on the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2019 and the Federal Circuit and Family Court […]

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South Africa court rules domestic workers are due compensation for work-related injury claims

The Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled Thursday that sections of the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act effectively denying domestic workers compensation if they suffer disease, disablement, injuries, or death in the course of their employment are unconstitutional as they infringe on fundamental rights of domestic workers set out in the South African […]

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US appeals court rules Florida conversion therapy bans violate First Amendment

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday that bans on conversion therapy violate the First Amendment. Plaintiff-appellants Robert Otto and Julie Hamilton provided what they call “sexual orientation change efforts” (SOCE) through talk therapy until Palm Beach County and the City of Boca Raton banned conversion therapy in 2017. The […]

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Egypt arrests executive director of human rights organization

Egyptian authorities arrested Friday Gasser Abdel Razek, the Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). EIPR is a Human rights organization whose goal is to “strengthen and protect basic rights and freedoms in Egypt, through research, advocacy and supporting litigation in the fields of civil liberties, economic and social rights, and criminal justice.” EIPR […]

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US Supreme Court authorizes execution of eighth federal death row inmate since July

The US Supreme Court vacated a stay of execution for Orlando Hall Thursday evening, resulting in Hall’s execution at 11:47 pm Thursday. Justices Kagan, Breyer, and Sotomayor dissented from the decision. Hall is the eighth federal death row inmate to be executed since President Donald Trump resumed federal executions this summer after a 17-year hiatus. […]

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Poland judge critical of ruling party loses immunity from prosecution

The Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court of Poland Wednesday deprived a Warsaw District Court judge known to be critical of controversial judicial reforms implemented by the ruling rightwing Law and Justice Party (PiS) of his institutional immunity from prosecution. Judge Igor Tuleya was formerly charged with failing to comply with his judicial duties after […]

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Uganda presidential candidate whose arrest sparked riots faces charges of spreading COVID-19

Ugandan presidential candidate Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulani, was released on bail from detention Friday after being charged with violating the government’s COVID-19 rules by holding political rallies. Wine’s arrest Wednesday sparked a series of violent protests that claimed the lives of 37 people. Following the news of Wine’s arrest on Wednesday, […]

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BLM protesters file federal lawsuit against Chicago police

Sixty protesters filed a federal lawsuit Thursday accusing the Chicago Police Department of violating their First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by using “brutal, violent and unconstitutional tactics” to curb the social justice protests that took place this summer. The plaintiffs, who all took part in various Black lives Matter (BLM) rallies and protests in […]

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Thai PM threatens tough legal crackdown on democracy protestors

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha Thursday threatened to use “all possible laws” against democracy protestors calling for the removal of King Maha Vajiralongkorn. “The government will intensify its actions and use all laws, all articles, to take action against protesters who broke the law,” Prayuth said in a statement. “The situation is not improving. There […]

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Trump campaign drops Michigan election lawsuit despite vote certification reversal

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign withdrew their federal lawsuit in Michigan on Thursday, claiming they had already accomplished their goal of preventing vote certification in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. But that was not actually the case. The Michigan election lawsuit argued the vote should not be certified based on claims by Republican poll watchers […]

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