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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court to rule that government agents need a warrant to search cell phones, computers, and other personal electronic devices at the border.

PACE rapporteurs, welcoming proposals to reform EU asylum policy, call for JHA Council meeting on 14 September to prioritise human rights

Attorneys for a 74-pound Guantánamo prisoner who is “on the precipice of death” according to three medical experts urged a federal court to order his release despite the Obama administration’s opposition on September 11. Tariq Ba Odah, who is from Yemen but grew up in Saudi Arabia, has been held without charge since 2002 and was cleared for release in 2009. Ba Odah’s case has, in many ways been at the center of the inter-agency disputes over the future of Guantánamo.

The recent arrival of tens of thousands of refugees to Europe from across the region confirms the dire humanitarian conditions millions of Iraqis now face. “Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled the conflict for the safety of Europe and hundreds of thousands could follow unless much more is done to alleviate the suffering of the more than 8 million men, women and children in Iraq who need our help,” United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Ms. Lise Grande, said.

Jordan should strengthen proposed amendments to its 1960 penal code to better protect human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour released on September 13.

On 11 September, United Nations refugee agency welcomed the European Commission’s proposals unveiled last Wednesday to address the current refugee crisis in Europe, adding that given the urgency of the situation, these proposals need to be implemented fully and swiftly.

Cizre, southeast Turkey.

Migrants and asylum seekers are being held in abysmal conditions in the two Roszke migrant detention centers on the Serbian border, Human Rights Watch said on September 11 after obtaining footage from inside the camp and interviewing persons currently and formerly detained there. Hungarian police intercept asylum seekers and migrants entering via Serbia and detain them for days for registration and processing in conditions that fall short of Hungary’s international obligations.

Cluster munition survivors who lost their legs play sitting volleyball one evening with participants of the First Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

The baseless conviction of the opposition leader Leopoldo López and three Venezuelan students for violent incidents during the country’s 2014 protests exposes the extreme deterioration of the rule of law in Venezuela, Human Rights Watch said on September 10. The trials involved egregious due process violations and failed to provide evidence linking the accused to a crime.