Palestinian activist and torture survivor Rasmea Odeh today received a significant boost from the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which unanimously vacated her 2014 conviction of an immigration...
Attorneys for Black Lives Matter activists sued the federal government this week in an effort to obtain information about its monitoring of constitutionally protected protests. Filed Thursday in...
...For applicants in Yemen, which is experiencing a major cholera outbreak amid a violent conflict , the “hardship” is clear, said Ibraham Qatabi, a Yemeni American activist with the Center for...
Join Scientific Soul Sessions for the Launch of the International Campaign to Free Russell Maroon Shoats with an evening of music, spoken, word and discussion on Maroon’s life. Featuring:...
Changes in solitary confinement procedures in California prisons are at the core of a legal settlement announced Tuesday. The agreement in federal court between the state and a group of inmates held...
Gay rights activists in the East African nation of Uganda say they’ve been persecuted for years, subject to arrest simply for meeting, to physical violence for being gay. In an unlikely twist, their...
H igh theater was on full display during Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general this week. He fielded compliments on his character and knocked softball...
Opponents of the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline, a 163-mile crude oil line that would run from Lake Charles to St. James, filed suit against the pipeline’s backer Tuesday to make its documents public...
...Government actors have, it seems, endless reasons to shroud their actions in secrecy; that’s why tools like the Freedom of Information Act and state open records laws are so critical. But it turns...
Did you know that throwing a rock through the window of a Whole Foods could be punished as a federal crime of terrorism? An Assistant United States Attorney admitted as much last year, when defending...
