The Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute on Monday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Trump administration seeking release of data on how often US citizens and others had electronic devices searched at border crossings. The lawsuit , filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [...]

Former Bosnian prison guard Slobo Maric was stripped of his US citizenship and sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday after failing to disclose his membership in the Bosnian Army and war crimes he committed during the Bosnia-Herzegovina Conflict , according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement . Maric became a US citizen in [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned the recent loss of civilian life in Mosul as a result of airstrikes and actions by Islamic State (IS) militants. Information from the UN Human Rights Office indicated that at least 307 people were killed, with another 273 wounded, between February 17 [...]

Nine Arkansas death row inmates, including eight scheduled for lethal injections next month, jointly filed suit against Governor Asa Hutchinson and Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelly on Monday to stop the executions. The suit is in response to an Arkansas Supreme Court decision earlier this month that stated there was no stay in place [...]

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers on Monday adopted Rules of Procedure and Evidence , less than two months after the justices were appointed. The adoption of the rules brings the court to the brink of being operable. The matter now shifts to the Constitutional Court of Kosovo to decide the legality of the adopted procedures. The [...]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday ruled that the bloc’s economic sanctions placed on Russia were valid. The measures include travel restrictions and a freeze on the assets of certain natural and legal persons. Certain measures also pertain to areas of access to capital markets, defense, dual-use goods, and sensitive technologies, including the [...]

Several UN rights experts called Tuesday for the release of prominent human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor, who was arrested at his home on March 20 by United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities. An arrest warrant was not issued and his current whereabouts are unknown, making human rights experts fear he may be in danger of harsh [...]

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during Monday’s White House news briefing that cities failing to enforce immigration laws may be cut off from Justice Department grants. Sessions’ statement was directed towards so-called “sanctuary cities,” such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, which have implemented policies prohibiting officers from performing routine immigration checks and [...]

A group of 13 states have come out in support of President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban . Twelve state attorneys general and one governer filed a brief with the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Monday stating that the president lawfully acted in the interest of national security. The states claim that [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton and TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Food Brands Group LLC . In Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton , the court heard arguments on whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) church-plan exemption applies in circumstances where the [...]