October 18, 2023, Geneva, Switzerland – Today, members of U.S. Civil Society turned their backs in silent protest of the U.S. delegation during the closing remarks given by U.S. Ambassador Michele...
A challenge to the U.S. drone killing of three U.S. citizens in Yemen.
Updated: August 30, 2021
February 9, 2021... Another piece of legislation Scher approvingly references is by Rep. Adam Schiff. The California Democrat’s bill, according to Scher, would (among other things) further expand what’s called the...
July 22, 2016Tomorrow, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California will take action to bring attention to prison conditions...
January 29, 2026The war on Venezuela is not an exception, but a warning
August 15, 2015In a maneuver blasted by constitutional rights experts as "rare and unusual," the Obama administration late on Friday submitted a long-awaited filing urging a federal judge not to order the release...
September 2, 2015On Tuesday, 10 California inmates succeeded in stopping the decades-long use of indefinite solitary confinement in the state's prison system. In a landmark settlement to a class-action suit they...
A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked President Trump’s plan to bar nearly all migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of...
Updated: July 26, 2019
Five Years After Landmark Settlement, Violations Continue September 26, 2020, Palo Alto – Men who spent decades in solitary confinement in California prisons are charging that the California...
Zafar Arslan (f/k/a Adel Noori) It was against this backdrop that Mr. Arslan made the difficult decision to leave his homeland to escape the severe religious and political persecution he had endured...
Updated: January 14, 2010
Pages
