China has been harvesting organs from prisoners, including prisoners of conscience (those jailed for nothing more than practicing a religion that is not state-sponsored), for years, and despite saying they have reformed the practice in 2015, China is still doing it, according to human rights workers David Matas and Ethan Gutmann. According to the lawyer … Read more
Julian Assange has been holed up in a room in London for years after being given refuge by Equador in their London embassy building. In 2010, he was charged with sex crimes in Sweden — a couple of women he was involved with at the time made complaints not long after Wikileaks published video and … Read more
A debate is taking place in legal circles, matching the contentious findings of the various judges that have been dealing with figuring out how Trump’s executive orders are related to his earlier statements. During the campaign trail, Trump said he would institute a Muslim ban. Most legal experts would consider such a ban to be … Read more
No more end-to-end encryption is one of the consequences of a new law proposed in a draft in the UK. The authors of the draft want to force internet providers to monitor all communications in near realtime, as well as install backdoor equipment to break encryption, so providers can be required to turn over communications … Read more
For standing up to the government and nickel miners expanding into the land of his 270-member farming and fishing village, Rodrigo Tot, 60, won the largest award going for grassroots environmental activists. “An indigenous leader in Guatemala’s Agua Caliente, Rodrigo Tot led his community to a landmark court decision that ordered the government to issue … Read more
Attorney Nicholas Somberg was found guilty of contempt of court by Roseville District Judge Marco Santia for livestreaming a trial in which a Michagan man tried to fight a fine received for warming his car up in his driveway one cold morning. In the trial over the ticket, the city’s attorney argued that the law … Read more
For 12 years, the death chamber has been empty in the state, but this week a single execution and then a double execution were held there. Jack Jones and Marcel Williams, both on death row for over 20 years for murder and rape, were killed most recently. There is a rush in Arkansas because one … Read more