Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a twenty-year-old American citizen born in the US, has been released as of Thursday evening after spending 24 hours in jail on charges of entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.” Lopez-Gomez has alleged that his claim to the arresting officer that he is indeed a US citizen were ignored, despite Lopez-Gomez backing [...]

A federal judge on Friday ordered Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk to be returned to Vermont, where she will remain in custody, pending a bail hearing. Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by Department of Homeland (DHS) agents near the university’s Massachusetts campus last month after her F-1 student visa was revoked. Ozturk [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that the escalating violence in Haiti is putting civilians at “grave risk,” urging the international community to protect human rights in the country. HRW said Haiti’s transitional government is unable to contain the spread of violence throughout the country while criminal groups maintain a hold on the capital of [...]

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg in Russia has sentenced 19-year-old activist Daria Kozyreva to two years and eight months in prison for “discrediting the armed forces” by publicly posting 19th-century Ukrainian poetry in protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to local media sources. Kozyreva began her anti-war activism in 2022, the year [...]

On March 25, Trinidad and Tobago’s Court of Appeal overturned a High Court ruling that the country’s colonial-era “Buggery and Serious Indecency laws” are unconstitutional. The decision brought worldwide scrutiny and criticisms about backsliding human rights and what many rights groups deem the “re-criminalization of homosexuality.” The Court of Appeal’s reasoning in the decision is [...]

US District Judge Julia Kobick in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction on Friday against President Donald Trump’s administration, finding that the administration’s passport policy is likely discriminatory against transgender and nonbinary individuals. Judge Kobick stated: The Executive Order and the Passport Policy on their face classify passport applicants on the basis of sex and thus [...]

The US Supreme Court early Saturday morning temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest attempt to deport Venezuelan nationals under a 1798 law known as the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). The Trump administration claims that the detainees are members of the gang “Tren de Agua,” which it has listed as a terrorist organization. Lawyers for the [...]

The Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday requiring K-12 public schools to display the Ten Commandments in common school areas and classrooms routinely used to teach US history. The bill states that displaying the Ten Commandments “with an appropriate context statement” is essential to educating students in “Civics, Government, History, Philosophy, Religion, [...]

The Supreme Court of Nebraska on Friday found that provisions of a challenged criminal reform act, Legislative Bill 50 (LB50), are in fact constitutional. LB50, passed in 2023, is just one in a spate of reform legislation enacted in recent years by Nebraska. State Attorney General Michael Hilgers took issue with LB50, arguing the provisions [...]