Nicaragua’s Congress on Saturday approved an amnesty law that will offer protection to police and others involved in crimes against anti-government protesters over the past year. According to rights groups, more than 700 people were arrested in demonstrations that erupted in April 2018 when President Daniel Ortega tried to cut social security. More than 300 [...]
Alabama legislature sent a bill to the governor that would require convicted child sex offenders to undergo chemical castration treatment as a condition of parole. Under existing law, a conviction for a sex offense against a person under the age of 12 years constitutes a Class A or B felony, and is not eligible for [...]
New York lawmakers on Tuesday approved a ban on cat declawing, moving one step closer to becoming the first state to do so. The state legislature voted to amend the agriculture and markets law by adding section 381, which prohibits the declawing of cats. Under the new law, except for therapeutic purposes, no person shall [...]
A Swedish trial court on Monday denied prosecutors’ request to have WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange detained in absentia over allegations of rape since Assange is already detained in the UK. The detention would have allowed prosecutors to move forward with steps to extradite Assange as he refused cooperation. Under Swedish law, detention in absentia would [...]
The US Supreme Court held Monday in Azar v. Allina Health Services that the government’s policy that reduced payments to hospitals serving low-income patients must be vacated for failing to identify a lawful excuse for neglecting its statutory notice-and-comment obligations under the Medicare statute. This case arose out of the government’s policy in counting Part [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday released a report claiming the Myanmar military has committed violations of war crimes and other human rights violations against the ethnic armed group the Arakan Army (AA) since January 4. The report finds that the military has fired indiscriminately in civilian areas, killing and injuring civilians and damaging homes and other [...]
The Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, filed a motion for summary judgment on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to accelerate its lawsuit against the US government. The lawsuit, initially filed in March, involves Section 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This provision explicitly prohibits executive government agencies [...]
The Provincial Court in Gdansk, northern Poland, on Monday found two founders of a notorious pyramid scheme guilty of fraud for cheating thousands of people out of their savings, worth $219 million. The scam, called Amber Gold, cheated some 19,000 investors out of over 850 million zlotys (USD $220.91 million) between 2009 and 2012. Almost [...]
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that effectively prohibits US companies from using any telecoms equipment manufactured by China’s Huawei. The executive order, which has been under consideration for a year, cites the International Emergency Economics Power Act, a law enacted in 1977 that gives the president broad power to control trade [...]
Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a new report that abuses by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime, including extrajudicial executions and arbitrary detentions, may constitute crimes against humanity. The report indicates that from January 21 to 25, 2019, in a total of 12 of the country’s 23 states, at least 47 people died in the [...]
