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The US District Court District of Columbia sentenced an orchestrator of the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot to 87 months of imprisonment and ordered him to pay $2000 in restitution. On November 21, 2023, the court found Taylor James Johnatakis guilty of seven charges, including three felonies, due to his participation in the riot. [...]

The US Supreme Court declined to hear Monday the appeal of New Mexico County Commissioner Couy Griffin, who was removed from office after his participation in the events of January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol. Griffin, the founder of Cowboys for Trump and former Otero County Commissioner, was convicted of disorderly conduct and entering [...]

A Massachusetts federal judge sentenced a Texas man to serve three months in federal prison on Thursday for threatening a Boston, Massachusetts doctor affiliated with the national LGBTQIA+ health education center. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Matthew Jordan Lindner’s sentence after he previously pleaded guilty to one count of interstate transmission of threatening [...]

US District Judge Colin S. Bruce sentenced Philip Buyno to five years in prison in the Central District of Illinois on Monday after he attempted to commit arson against a future reproductive healthcare center. Bruce also ordered Buyno to pay $327,547 in restitution for the damages he caused. Buyno pled guilty to attempting to use [...]

An appeals court in Pennsylvania affirmed a trial court ruling on Thursday which held that welfare fraud and outstanding restitution balance cannot be used to justify the denial of housing assistance. The decision signaled a win for applicants seeking housing vouchers in Pennsylvania. The appeal, heard before the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, concerned the Lawrence [...]

Attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to six criminal charges in a Georgia case involving former President Donald Trump and his allies’ alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 US presidential election. A Georgia judge previously agreed to sever Powell and attorney Kenneth Chesebro from Trump and the other 16 co-defendants back in September. In exchange [...]

The UN Human Rights Office released a report Wednesday focusing on reparations for people of African descent in response to the continuing effects of slavery and colonialism. The UN report floats a “multipronged approach” to address the legacies of slavery and colonialism, which includes the possibility of providing monetary reparations for the descendants of enslaved [...]

A UN Human Rights Committee on Follow-Up Rapporteur Friday published findings that Spain failed to implement a landmark United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) decision in the Baltasar Garzón v Spain case. The report was sent directly to Garzón’s international legal representative, Helen Duffy, of Human Rights in Practice. Speaking on the report, Human Rights in [...]

Peter Stager of Arkansas was sentenced Monday to 52 months in prison and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution in a District of Columbia courtroom for beating a police officer with a flag pole during the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. In the criminal complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of [...]

The Supreme Court of India said on Wednesday that it will deliberate on the constitutional validity of Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code. This exception currently prevents non-consensual marital sex from being considered rape, raising concerns about the rights and protection of those involved. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, [...]