Europe rights court upholds ban on animal rights advertisement
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg held Monday in a 9-8 vote that a ban on an advertisement by an animal rights group did not violate freedom of expression under...
Europe rights court upholds ban on animal rights advertisement
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg held Monday in a 9-8 vote that a ban on an advertisement by an animal rights group did not violate freedom of expression under...
Poland court rules ritual slaughter of animals violates constitution
Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled Wednesday that the ritual slaughter of animals violates the Polish Constitution. The court's ruling will bar strictly-followed slaughtering practices by Muslim and Jewish citizens where the animal is not stunned first. The decision...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday upheld a German injunction preventing the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) from using Holocaust images...
JURIST Guest Columnist Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in part to stem corporate profit loss...A recent undercover investigation...
DOJ report criticizes FBI for domestic advocacy group probes
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report Monday absolving the FBI of charges that agents conducted investigations of domestic groups based on their exercise of...
After Stevens decision, Congress must enact narrower statute banning crush films
Jeffrey S. Kerr : "Crush fetish videos, which this law was enacted in 1999 to prohibit, are made for a niche market of individuals who derive sexual satisfaction from watching...
The government of mainly-Muslim Malaysia has imposed a blanket ban on the controversial caricatures of Muhammad , making it an offense to publish, import, produce, manufacture, circulate, distribute or even possess the cartoons originally printed in a...