The Supreme Court of India on Monday found judge C.S. Karnan guilty of contempt and sentenced him to six months in jail. The court ordered the judge to be taken into custody immediately as “hosoever commits contempt gets punished.” The judge was set to retire in June, however, he will serve out the rest of [...]

Ireland Health Minister Simon Harris said Monday that the country’s blasphemy laws were “embarrassing” and called for their repeal. His comments follow the revelation that an investigation had been launched into British actor, Stephen Frye concerning comments he made on RTE in March of 2015. Harris said that the actor “regardless of your own religious [...]

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Monday that there are “systemic failures, such as unreasonable delays in care and unqualified medical staff leading to “dangerously subpar” medical care in US immigration detention centers. The group expressed concerns about the Trump administration’s plans to detain an even higher number of immigrants, which HRW believes will [...]

Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after being found guilty of blasphemy by an Indonesian court . Ahok is Christian and the charges came as a result of his reference to a Qur’an verse used by conservative leaders to justify the claim that Muslims should not be [...]

Former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee on Monday stating that she had warned about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s vulnerabilities to blackmail by Russia less than a week after President Donald Trump assumed office. Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to US was a primary [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday regarding President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order. The Trump Administration is appealing a Maryland court ruling in March which placed a temporary ban on Trump’s Executive Order 13780 , also known as the “revised travel ban.” The plaintiffs in the case [...]

A Chinese human rights lawyer detained in the city of Changsha since 2015 pleaded guilty Monday to incitement to subversion and disturbing legal proceedings. Prosecutors accused Xie Yang of conspiring with people in and out of China to distort reports of police brutality, with the ultimate goals of undermining state power and threatening national security. [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday signed into law a bill banning so-called “sanctuary cities” in the state. Under the law, municipal officials who fail to assist with federal immigration enforcement could face civil penalties, removal from office and criminal charges. Abbot said the law was needed to maintain public safety in the state: As [...]

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Friday signed SB 1085 into law which mandates that undefined laws be given their natural and ordinary meaning. Dubbed the “natural and ordinary meaning” law, it requires that “undefined words be given their natural and ordinary meaning, without forced or subtle construction that would limit or extend the meaning of [...]

The National Control Commission for the Election Campaign for the Presidential Election (CNCCEP) on Saturday cautioned media outlets against sharing information leaked from an alleged hack of a presidential candidate. The hackers have claimed to have stolen an estimated 9 gigabytes of data from the Emmanuel Macron campaign and the Macron-backed En Marche Party , [...]