Indonesia’s House of Representatives on Tuesday approved the Science and Technology Bill, which imposes criminal charges on foreign researchers if they are found to violate visa regulations, according to a copy obtained by the Jakarta Post. In addition to requiring permits for research, the new law also levies criminal charges against researchers who steal biodiversity [...]
US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Richard Donoghue, announced during a press conference Tuesday that the Department of Justice will not pursue charges against a New York City police officer in the death of Eric Garner. The incident involving police officer Daniel Pantaleo and Eric Garner featured a recorded video of the [...]
The Rent Stabilization Association (RSA) and Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), along with individual landlords, filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging New York’s new rent laws under Fourth and Fifth Amendment property rights. Last month the New York Senate passed the Housing Stability And Tenant Protections Act of 2019. This Act reformed the previous rent [...]
The US Congress passed the Cambodia Act of 2019 Monday, which aims “To promote free and fair elections, political freedoms, and human rights in Cambodia, and for other purposes.” The bill was introduced by Congressman Ted Yoho, of Florida’s Third District and Lead Republican for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and [...]
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a bill into law penalizing acts of sexual harassment including catcalling, wolf-whistling and persistent telling of sexual jokes. Officials released a copy of the Republic Act 11313, known as the “Safe Spaces Act,” on Monday, which Duterte signed in April. Bars, restaurants, cinemas and other public places are required [...]
India’s Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, passed a bill on Monday to amend a statute that delineates the powers of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the country’s federal anti-terrorism investigation agency. It will become law once it is passed by the upper house of parliament (Rajya Sabha) and receives presidential assent. In its [...]
The Supreme Court of Utah ruled last week a basketball player cannot sue his competitor over a knee injury. The case was based on a knee injury that Judd Nixon suffered during a 2012 game at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints center in Utah County as he tried to score against another [...]
The Guatemala Constitutional Court granted an injunction Sunday to stop the country’s President, Jimmy Morales, from entering into a proposal with the US that would require migrants from El Salvador and Honduras to apply for asylum in Guatemala instead of in the US. Morales canceled a trip to Washington, DC, earlier Sunday to let the [...]
The Trump administration on Monday filed new guidelines with the Department of Homeland Security that limit the ability of Central American migrants to claim asylum in the US. The new rule, due to be published Tuesday, applies to migrants who come to the US by traveling through a third country. Migrants who fail to apply [...]
Court of Federal Claims Senior Judge Eric Bruggink granted cross-motions for summary judgment on Friday to allow the Pentagon to move forward with its new purchase of a “War Cloud” from a major cloud services provider. Oracle has long accused the Pentagon of bias and conflicts of interest in the design of the Joint Enterprise [...]
