The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Monday called on the US government to "abolish the mandatory detention of migrants, especially asylum seekers, from all countries." The working group stated that mandatory detention was a...
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UN rights experts urge US government to end mandatory detention of migrants
Federal appeals court rules climate change sufficient evidence to list seals as ‘threatened’
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Former Pennsylvania AG sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail
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Amnesty: popular messaging services not protecting user privacy
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Former Guantanamo detainee ends hunger strike after resettlement compromise
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Airbnb sues New York over controversial housing regulation law
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Federal appeals court revives Abu Ghraib torture suit
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Federal judge orders accused NSA contractor to remain in custody
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Federal judge: Georgia does not have to reveal execution drug provider
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Mexico judge rejects appeals of ‘El Chapo’ extradition to US
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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) acted reasonably when it proposed to list certain populations of bearded seals in Alaska as...
A Pennsylvania judge on Monday sentenced former attorney general Kathleen Kane to 10 to 23 months in jail after she was found guilty of perjury and abusing her position. Kane resigned from office in August...
Popular services like Snapchat and Skype are falling short on privacy protections for their users , Amnesty International (AI) said in a new report . The report, released Friday, ranked the 11 companies that provide the...
Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a Syrian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, on Saturday ended his 68-day hunger strike. Dhiab was among a number of former detainees who were resettled in Uruguay in an effort to close down the detention center...
Airbnb filed suit against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio in federal court on Friday challenging Senate Bill S6340A, signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo hours earlier, which...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison may continue their torture lawsuit against civilian military contractors. Four former prisoners allege that they...
A federal judge on Friday ordered a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor accused of stealing classified government documents to remain in custody while awaiting trial. The judge said of the former NSA agent, Harold Martin...
U.S. District Judge J. Clay Fuller on Thursday ruled that the state of Georgia does not have to reveal information about its one-drug execution method. In a suit brought by two death row inmates challenging...
A Mexican judge on Thursday rejected five appeals intended to prevent the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán to the US for criminal charges. A previous judge had suspended Guzmán's extradition in May, but the...
