ACLU Comment on Baghdad Strike
In response to a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian military commander and others, American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project Director Hina Shamsi, had the following reaction:
Saudi Arabia: Repressive Site for Dakar Rally
The Amaury Sport Organisation should use its decision to move the Dakar Rally to Saudi Arabia to denounce the persecution of women’s rights advocates in the country, Human Rights Watch, MENA Rights Group, and 11 other international human rights...
ACLU Takes Fight Against Arkansas Abortion Bans and Restrictions to 8th Circuit
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arkansas filed their brief with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on December 30,2019 in their challenge to a set of Arkansas abortion bans and restrictions. The laws included a ban on abortion...
FIRST PERSON: ‘You can’t get paid for staring out of the window’ - How I proved my teacher wrong
Zack Martin, the owner of Crawler Haulers a trucking company based in Lafayette in Louisiana....
Egypt: Rights Activist Assaulted
Armed men, who appear to have been security forces, physically attacked prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Gamal Eid in Cairo on December 29, 2019, Human Rights Watch said on Dec 30, 2019. This was the second assault against Eid since October.
Independent UN rights experts raise alarm over ‘incommunicado detention’ of Chinese scholar
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Guterres stresses need for independent, ‘impartial investigation’ into Saudi journalist Khashoggi’s death
As Saudi Arabia handed death sentences to five people and sent three others to jail for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the United Nations Secretary-General continued to stress the need for “an independent and impartial investigation...
Russia: Police Round Up Migrant Workers
Russian police rounded up and arbitrarily detained scores of Central Asian migrant workers, beating many of them, in a series of raids in mid-December 2019, Human Rights Watch said on Dec 24, 2019.
THAILAND: DROP CHARGES AGAINST OPPOSITION MEMBERS AND ACTIVISTS HOLDING ‘FLASH MOBS’
Amnesty International calls for an end to judicial harassment of the political opposition, human rights defenders and activists in Thailand, as authorities began new criminal proceedings against members of the Future Forward Party and activists...
PACE rapporteur deplores further reported execution in Belarus
