The California Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the residency requirements associated with Proposition 83 amount to additional punishment for sex offenders . Proposition 83, or Jessica's Law,...
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A spokesperson for the Pentagon acknowledged on Sunday while speaking to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that the US held 12 juveniles at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...
The Kenyan government Friday said in response to a report by the UN Committee on Torture focusing on post-election violence that occurred in the country in late 2007 and early 2008 that it was taking...
Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama have begun working on a plan to hold criminal trials in US courts for a large number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a Monday report by...
Judge Nancy Atlas of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas sentenced former US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent Santiago Perez to one year and one day in prison for civil...
The State Council Information Office of China announced Tuesday that the country will draft a plan to protect human rights. The panel being formed to draft the plan will receive input from more than 50...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Thursday upheld a Missouri state law designed to prevent registered sex offenders from participating in Halloween activities. The law requires sex...
A new regulation by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior would prevent illegal immigrants who had left the country returning again, the newspaper Ha'aretz reported Sunday. The regulation covering persons from a wide range of...
The New York City Council passed a resolution Thursday to amend the city's charter by extending elected city officials' term limits from two to three terms of four years. The resolution, which took effect...
