Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announced Wednesday that his country will withdraw from co-sponsorship of a 2015 UN resolution which sought to investigate war crimes committed on the island during the country’s civil war. It is believed the move is a response to the US imposing a travel ban on Sri Lanka’s army commander [...]
Mexico’s lower house of Congress, the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday approved a proposal to amend the Federal Criminal Code and increase punishments for the crimes of femicide and sexual abuse of minors. The Chamber of Deputies proposal would increase the maximum prison sentence for femicide from 60 years to 65 years, and it would [...]
US officials announced Tuesday that Mexican citizen Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes was arrested in Miami, Florida, for allegedly spying on the US government on behalf of Russia. Fuentes was allegedly recruited by the Russian government in 2019 and asked to rent a specific property in Miami-Dade County. He was told to do this under an [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Wednesday that Florida cannot bar felons from registering to vote for failing to pay all fines and fees associated with their cases. In 2018 Florida voters approved Amendment 4, which would automatically restore voting rights to ex-felons who had completed all the terms of their [...]
The Office of Foreign Missions (OFM) of the US State Department announced Tuesday that five Chinese state-run media organizations will be designated as foreign missions, including the Xinhua News Agency; China Global Television Network, which falls under China Central Television, CCTV; China Radio International; China Daily Distribution Corporation; and Hai Tian Development USA, which is [...]
Following the approval of the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) destruction of years’ worth of detainee documentation from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the American Immigration Council, the National Immigrant Justice Center and the National Immigration Law Center submitted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests [...]
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Delaware federal district court Tuesday. The bankruptcy filing comes after recent sexual abuse allegations against BSA members. In January Abused in Scouting, a group dedicated to seeking relief for sexual abuse victims previously in the Boy Scouts, filed a suit against the [...]
A federal judge on Tuesday denied telecommunication giant Huawei’s claim that the restriction on its US business was unconstitutional. The company alleged in its complaint that Section 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act violated its due process rights. The provision prohibits federal agencies and contractors from using Huawei and rival company ZTE’s products. The [...]
The North Carolina Court of Appeals granted an injunction Tuesday preventing the implementation of a voter ID law. North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment to require photo ID in November 2018. Plaintiffs challenged the requirement as racially discriminatory. They argued that the history of racially discriminatory voter ID laws in North Carolina, which are [...]
A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted nine of 16 individuals on charges related to organizing the 2013 Gezi Park protests. Among the acquitted were architects, a journalist, lawyers, actors and Osman Kavala, a Turkish businessman and philanthropist who served two years in prison prior to the trial. The entire group faced the collective possibility of [...]
