Arizona Governor Jan Brewer issued an executive order on Wednesday that instructs state agencies not to provide driver’s licenses and other public benefits to undocumented immigrants who have gained the right to work under a new federal program known as Deferred Action . Brewer’s executive order rebuffs the Deferred Action program, a recent Obama administration [...]

A Bahraini court on Thursday sentenced prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab to three years in jail for instigating and participating in several anti-government protests. Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights , was convicted on three separate counts of taking part in “illegal gatherings” that yielded a one-year sentence each. Each of [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged the government of Hungary to protect the nation’s Roma communities from attacks. On August 5, violence erupted in the Hungarian village of Devecser when more than a thousand people gathered in the village square in a demonstration organized by the far-right Hungarian party Jobbik . Several demonstrators chanted anti-Roma [...]

Families of murdered Iranian nuclear scientists told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday that they have filed lawsuits against the US, UK and Israel for their governments’ alleged involvements in the assassinations. The father of one of the scientists revealed that the families would ask Iran’s judiciary to pursue their complaint internationally. At least [...]

A court in Hong Kong has begun the hearing challenging the election of Hong Kong’s new leader Leung Chun-ying . Chairman of the Chinese Democratic Party Albert Ho filed two separate lawsuits last month seeking to overturn the election results , claiming that Leung made false and misleading statements during the election. Leung, a land [...]

A judge in Brazil ruled on Tuesday that construction on the Belo Monte Dam must stop until local indigenous communities are allowed to voice their opinions on the environmental impact of the dam. The Brazilian government declared that the dam would help make Brazil more self-sufficient in energy. However, many environmental and indigenous rights groups [...]

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday ordered a lower court to reconsider its decision ordering Florida’s Dixie County Courthouse to remove a Ten Commandments monument from its front steps. A federal judge last year ordered the monument to be removed , finding that if violated the [...]

Former president of Argentina Fernando de la Rua faced trial on Tuesday on bribery charges associated with his term as president from 1999-2001. De la Rua is accused of bribing Senators for votes , including the payment of $5 million to senators in order to reduce legal protections for Argentine workers. A panel of judges [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the government of Ethiopia on Wednesday to release 17 prominent Muslim leaders who were arrested last month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. HRW asserted that the Ethiopian government has used its anti-terrorism law as a tool to crack down on dissent, particularly dissent amongst the nation’s Muslims, who constitute [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against the FBI alleging that it illegally directed its agents to spy on Muslim communities. Judge Cormac Carney dismissed the case after concluding that allowing the lawsuit to move forward would risk exposing important state secrets. The [...]