The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that “general and indiscriminate transmission or retention of traffic data and location data” is banned. The court was ruling on proceedings brought before bodies in the UK, France and Belgium dealing with these privacy and data surveillance issues. The court found that the directive on privacy and electronic communications precludes [...]
The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan reported on Tuesday that the South Sudan government has taken no concrete steps toward national healing since the civil war ended in 2018, finding instead that government forces are fueling the conflict. The report reveals that government forces have used deliberate starvation as a war tactic to [...]
Russian rights groups Open Russia, Memorial and Public Verdict Foundation called on authorities Tuesday to stop using home searches to intimidate opponents. This call came after journalist Irina Slavina died from setting herself on fire in front of the interior ministry office Friday following a police raid of her apartment. On October 1, Slavina reported [...]
Central Election Commission officials in Kyrgyzstan annulled the results of the October 4 parliamentary election Tuesday, following protests and opposition supporters seizing government buildings. In the now-annulled election results announced on Monday, Birimdik (Unity), a pro-government party, won 24.5 percent of the votes, Mekenim (My Homeland) Kyrgyzstan won 23.88 percent, and Kyrgyzstan Party won 8.76 percent. [...]
US Supreme Court heard rescheduled oral arguments by phone on Tuesday for the second day of the 2020 term. The first case before the court, Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, looked at a 2015 Arkansas law, Act 900. The Act regulates Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs), the intermediaries between health insurance plans and pharmacies, to [...]
The nation has watched aghast as, over and over again, police have killed or maimed unarmed persons of color. Each time, the police have acted with impunity under a quiescent criminal justice system. The charges filed against officers involved in the death of George Floyd are the exception, not the rule, and the charges just [...]
What is common between Rhodes, Rushmore, and Robert E. Lee? At first glance, the initial consonants, yes. However, what is more, common and conspicuous is their contemporaneousness today owing to the resurfacing of their racial pasts. Their troubling legacies have triggered vehement calls for the removal and/or destruction of their monumental statues and sculptures, among [...]
Pakistani police in Lahore filed sedition charges Monday against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz, and 44 other leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) party. Sharif was prime minister for three terms, and his last term ran from 2013 to 2017. In 2017 he was removed by the Supreme Court [...]
Judge Steven Logan of the US District Court for the District of Arizona issued an order Monday extending Arizona’s voter registration deadline to October 23 due to the impact of COVID-19. The voter registration deadline in Arizona was originally October 5. On October 2, two non-profit organizations sought an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order [...]
The US Supreme Court stayed a lower court decision Monday that prevented South Carolina from enforcing its witness requirement on mail-in ballots. This means that mail-in ballots received in South Carolina must include a witness signature in order to be counted. However, by a 5-3 vote, the court also ruled that any ballots received prior [...]
