The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Monday that an American illegally detained in Iraq by the US military for more than a year has been freed. After an extensive court battle, the Trump administration and ACLU reached a settlement agreement allowing the detainee to be released in a third country, where he will once [...]

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against election officials of Waller County, Texas, accusing them of voter discrimination. The LDF claims that officials refused to provide any early voting location on the campus of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a historically black university, during the first week [...]

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called Sunday for the Trump administration to reverse plans to rollback protections for transgender people, in light of a New York Times report on a draft proposal. According to the report, the Trump administration intends to redefine “sex” to exclude transgender individuals from non-discrimination protections. The report stated that the [...]

Several Supreme Court Justices in Poland returnedto court on Monday after the Court of Justice of the European Union ordered Poland to immediately suspend the application of the provisions of national legislation relating to the lowering of the retirement age for Supreme Court judges. Twenty-three of the court’s judges were forced to retire in July [...]

A London Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned the “excessive sentencing” imposed on three anti-fracking protesters in Lancashire. The activists, Simon Blevins, Richard Roberts and Rich Loizou, were convicted of causing a public nuisance for their role in a 100-hour blockade on a drilling site and were handed  a 15-16 month sentence. Lord chief justice, [...]

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Christian bakery owners did not discriminate against a gay customer when they refused to make a cake supporting same-sex marriage. Mr. Lee, a gay rights activist, brought a claim against Ashers Baking Company, located in Northern Ireland, after the bakery refused to make a cake iced with the [...]

Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid on Monday approved the controversial Digital Security Act, which critics and media organizations believe may quash freedom of speech and press. The new act aims to deter any person or organization from publishing or transmitting any material on any website or in electronic media that may cause defamation, negative religious sentiments, [...]

An Istanbul Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the life sentences of six individuals, including prominent journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak, on charges of assisting the plotters of a failed military coup in 2016. The journalists were originally sentenced in February, along with 221 other defendants , and appealed  to the high court for their [...]

An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the retrial of Muslim Brotherhood  leader Mohamed Badie and other prominent members from the group after new evidence arose from a February 2015 ruling. State news agency MENA reported  that the retrial relates to a case in which “Badie and 14 others were handed life sentences for incitement to [...]

Yemen war crime investigators on Tuesday asked  the UN Human Rights Council  to renew their mandate and allow the continued inquiry into Yemen’s “extremely alarming” conflict. The Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen , in their initial report  published in August, found evidence “that members of the Saudi-led coalition, the Yemeni government, and the Houthi armed [...]