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16 Sep 2010, 12:56 pm
[JURIST] Lebanon should improve its judicial system by providing mechanisms to better protect the basic rights of domestic workers [press release] and more ardently prosecuting those who violate them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said in a report [text] released Thursday. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 2:11 pm
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website; press release] on Thursday released a report entitled Angola’s Upcoming Elections: Attacks on the Media, Expression, and Assembly [report, PDF] alleging that the government of Angola [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] is responsible for undermining freedom of speech protections for its citizens. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 1:00 am
., of Bucyrus, Kansas, was sentenced in mid-January to two years in prison for misdirecting $2.2 million in employment taxes.Apparently, since 2010 -- through her various construction businesses -- S.C. collected the monies from her employees and then pocketed the cash.In addition to her sentence, S.C. faces three years of supervised release must pay the United States some $2,223,174.41 in restitution.Talk about a tax break .....# # #DOJ PRESS RELEASE ~ 01-19-24 [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 12:10 am
Bayou Buzz, IRS STALLS AGAIN: Agency Won't Release 6,400 Lois Lerner Emails Canada Free Press, Those 6,400 Lois Lerner E-mails the IRS Just Found? [read post]
24 May 2007, 2:59 pm
TI's Global Corruption Report 2007 [PDF text; press release] found judicial corruption to be particularly prevalent in the former Soviet republics in eastern and central Europe, and central Asia. [read post]
5 Jun 2009, 1:38 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official websites] to remand the case of two convicted Alaska lawmakers [press release] to district court and to release the prisoners on their own recognizance. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 7:14 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday urged the Indonesian government to release secession activists and adhere to international standards of free speech [report materials; press release]. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 1:35 pm
The Committee will start the morning session by hearing from its members about marketplace…Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? [read post]
17 Apr 2016, 10:46 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] announced [press release] the transfer of 9 Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia on Saturday as they continue their efforts to close the facility. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 12:24 pm
Military presence continues to escalate the situation [press release] as citizens are locked in-between checkpoints and cut off from basic human needs, health rights, education, and stores. [read post]
30 Sep 2005, 3:26 pm
[JURIST] Amnesty International [advocacy website] and Russia's Memorial Human Rights Center [advocacy website, English version] Friday accused Russian authorities of arbitrary and prolonged detentions of civilians, torture, and forced confessions [AI press release]. [read post]
11 Feb 2006, 2:34 am
" He made his comments as the ABA released [press release] a poll [results, PDF] showing that 52 percent of Americans believe the President [read post]
18 Dec 2006, 12:51 pm
[JURIST] Violent crime in the US increased during the first half of 2006 when compared with the same period in 2005, according to the FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report [press release, PDF; FBI materials] released Monday. [read post]
6 May 2007, 1:01 pm
[JURIST] A report [DOC; press release] released Sunday by Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and the HaMoked Centre for the Defence of the Individual [advocacy websites] says that the members of the Israeli security services routinely maltreat Palestinian detainees during interrogations and in some cases even "torture" them, as that term is defined by international law. [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 1:08 am
[JURIST] At least 2,390 people were executed throughout 25 countries in 2008, according to a report [text, PDF; AI press release] released Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website], up from the reported 1,252 executions in 2007 [AI report, PDF]. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 12:45 pm
US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis [official website] on Tuesday released a statement [press release] declaring that a panel will be established to determine how to implement President Donald Trump's "Military and Service by Transgender Individuals" Presidential Memorandum [text] and that all currently serving members of the military will remain serving under the current policy until the panel has provided a report of its recommendations. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 9:51 am
According to a statement released by the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the repatriation will be completed [press release] within two years from the commencement. [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 9:58 am
[JURIST] Afghanistan must strengthen its criminal justice system to provide protection for women victims of domestic violence, according to a report [text, DOC] released [press release] Sunday by the the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official websites]. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 12:09 pm
[JURIST] The Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) [official website], in partnership with the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School [website] released [press release] a report [PDF] Wednesday estimating that between 80,000 to 100,000 prisoners were in what correctional officials call "restrictive housing" in 2014. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 10:20 am
UK Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss [official profile] responded [press release] to the statistics:Since becoming Justice Secretary, I have been clear that the violence, self-harm and deaths in our prisons are too... [read post]
