June 20, 2024...A judge on Friday ordered a retrial over allegations that a Virginia-based military contractor contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades...
June 4, 2025, Washington, DC — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The federal lawsuit was filed by the...
Victims of the most serious human rights abuses often have no way to seek justice in their home countries. This may be because the government and courts at home are corrupt, or controlled by the same...
Updated: January 11, 2010
April 2014Former US Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was reportedly punished with solitary confinement for giving legal advice to his fellow inmates, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. An anonymous source...
September 2014Activists Press Challenge Over 'Animal Enterprise Terrorism' Law Jamie Schuman , Supreme Court Brief September 3, 2014 A First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is now before...
June 30, 2010, Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Agriculture Committee voted on House Resolution 4645, legislation that would lift the travel ban to Cuba. The United States has maintained...
Arguments will be held on May 12th on whether California violated the settlement in our case, Ashker v. Governor , a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in the Security...
Updated: May 7, 2020
October 2013"This week, one of the world's most renowned and respected medical journals, The Lancet, joined the chorus of epidemiologists challenging the credibility of a recently-released report by the...
January 2015More than once, the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan told me: 'This nation will not be civilized until it ends the death penalty.' But how civilized are we now, when, according to extended...
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