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10 Jun 2020, 11:36 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter to the U.N. [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 6:00 am
In 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California published a report following a two-year study that concluded law enforcement agencies in Kern County – specifically the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office – have engaged in patterns of excessive force and systematically violated the civil rights of local residents. [read post]
7 Jun 2020, 4:41 am
The European Court of Human Rights found that the journalist’s rights to liberty and security, a fair trial, and freedom of expression had been violated by the Russian authorities and courts in this case. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 8:22 am
Together with our partners and allies, the ACLU will help reimagine an effective and far more limited role for police in our country; implement changes that will save lives, advance civil rights and safeguard liberties; and create the conditions to start repairing decades of harm and violence inflicted on overpoliced communities of color. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm
In a statement, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California stated that the curfews violated the U.S. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 4:48 pm
I was looking at histories of civil liberty lawyering across territories that had been part of the British empire, most of my lawyers were engaged in resisting the powers of a variety of Emergency regimes, be it during anti-colonial wars of independence (Kenya, Malaysia, Cyprus); struggles of postcolonial state formation (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), or during military occupation (postwar Europe). [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 12:04 pm
Tobias Ellwood, Chair of the Defense Select Committee of the United Kingdom; and Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic at CSIS. [read post]
31 May 2020, 7:02 am
The insights of these stratagems may be especially relevant to the discourse and commentary surrounding the decisions, first by the Chinese Central Authorities to go forward with a National Security Law for Hong Kong, and then, by the actions taken in response by other states, especially the United States, with significant interests in Hong Kong's status. [read post]
29 May 2020, 9:04 am
On the latter point, Trump used his well-worn tactic of publicly attacking our cherished civil liberties, and the media once again prioritized its agenda as if it were a serious threat to our civil liberties. [read post]
29 May 2020, 6:10 am
Under a German law “assignment” only the rights under an agreement are assigned, not the obligations of the creditor. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:05 pm
David Cole, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, commended the court “for choosing the rights of the people incarcerated…for whom a prison sentence must not become a death sentence. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Disenfranchised persons are allowed to seek restoration of their civil rights, including the right of vote, by application to the state Clemency Board. [read post]
27 May 2020, 7:00 am
To find out more, the ACLU and New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, and now we’ve forced the agencies to turn over documents revealing new details about the agencies’ practices. [read post]
26 May 2020, 3:06 pm
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (“CCLA”) mounted a challenge to Newfoundland and Labrador Bill 38 (amending the Public Health Protection and Promotion Act (“PHPPA”), given royal assent on May 6, 2020). [read post]
25 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Some see inmates, as one 19th century judge put it, as “slaves of the state” who have “not only forfeited (their) liberty, but all (their) personal rights. [read post]
25 May 2020, 6:41 am
The awareness that their methods are under critique, the role of the UN and the shift in power towards the United States. [read post]
23 May 2020, 9:55 am
Pix: HEREPrudence might also be necessary because Hong Kong has become another battlefront in a much more important conflict between the two emerging global imperial systems--the United States and China. [read post]
22 May 2020, 4:52 pm
United StatesPrager University v. [read post]
20 May 2020, 11:32 am
Police and law enforcement officers are on the frontline of the coronavirus response. [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:05 pm
South Korea and the United States both confirmed their first COVID-19 cases on January 20. [read post]
