Torture, Slow Death in Egypt Junta's Aqrab Prison (Freedom and Justice Party)
(Source: Freedom and Justice Party) 'Tombs for the living!' This is the most 'moderate' description of Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison cells. Unlike humans who die the simple one death, detainees in this...
View ArticleHRW Letter to UN Committee against Torture on Pre-Sessional Review of China...
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) February 12, 2015 Members of the United Nations Committee against Torture Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201...
View ArticleReligious Exemptions and Third-Party Harms (The Federalist Society for Law...
(Source: The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies) Federalist Society Review, Volume 17, Issue 3 Note from the Editor: This article discusses the effect that third-party harms should...
View ArticleIn the Middle of an Electoral Revolution, Scalia Leaves the Plutocracy One...
The salutary rule of private life that one should not speak poorly of the recently departed does not properly apply to public persons who we know only through their public deeds. When they choose to...
View ArticleFlorida Murder Suspect Escaped A Packed Courtroom, Leaving Behind Shackles...
Imagine if a dangerous murder suspect fled a packed courtroom, changed his clothes, and left behind the prison jumpsuit and shackles, and now, is nowhere to be found. That is exactly what happened in...
View ArticleL.A. County jail inmates were handcuffed to a wall for hours on 'potty watch'
One jail inmate, clad only in boxer shorts and socks, was handcuffed to a wall for up to 11 hours. Another was cuffed to the wall for as many as eight or nine hours, causing bleeding and severe pain to...
View ArticlePrivate Prisons Rule With Little Oversight on America’s Border
To handle the massive number of immigrants sentenced to prison for re-entering the country, private prisons have sprung up from Arizona to Texas, with little oversight in terms of sanitation and...
View ArticleSlipshod security in Broward Courthouse
The story of how a murder suspect escaped from the Broward County Courthouse and left local law-enforcement officers looking like the Keystone Kops is one of those incredible, only-in-South-Florida...
View ArticlePANEL THAT REINSTATED DEPUTY SUED
SAN DIEGO For the second time in two years, Sheriff Bill Gore is asking a judge to overturn a decision made by the county Civil Service Commission. The latest suit, filed after commissioners rejected...
View ArticlePANEL THAT REINSTATED DEPUTY SUED SHERIFF SUES OVER DEPUTY REINSTATEMENT
SAN DIEGO For the second time in two years, Sheriff Bill Gore is asking a judge to overturn a decision made by the county Civil Service Commission. The latest suit, filed after commissioners rejected...
View ArticleSheriff sues county panel to fire jail deputy
SAN DIEGO For the second time in two years, Sheriff Bill Gore is asking a judge to overturn a decision made by the county Civil Service Commission. The latest suit, filed after commissioners rejected...
View ArticleSheriff sues panel that reinstated deputy
SAN DIEGO For the second time in two years, Sheriff Bill Gore is asking a judge to overturn a decision made by the county Civil Service Commission. The latest suit, filed after commissioners rejected...
View ArticleMother lets son drive golf cart at resort, gets jailed for child abuse
On the second day of her dream vacation on exclusive Bald Head Island, Julie Mall went with her family to the beach to catch the sunset. Her 11-year-old son asked to drive the golf cart back to their...
View ArticleThe trials of Babar Ahmad: from jihad in Bosnia to a US prison via Met brutality
In his first interview since he tasted freedom after 12 years behind bars, Ahmad tells how he became the longest-serving UK prisoner to be detained without charge...
View ArticleBad lieutenant: American police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantánamo
Exclusive: At the notorious wartime prison, Richard Zuley oversaw a shocking military interrogation that has become a permanent stain on his country. Part one of a Guardian investigation reveals he...
View ArticleInside Gitmo: America's Shame
The 9/11 trial will, if it happens at all, take place on a patch of dust in the Caribbean, within a high-security facility you can enter only with a notebook and pen (and just one pen), and observe...
View ArticleArmenia: Arbitrary Detentions, Brutal Beatings (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (Yerevan) - Armenian authorities have arbitrarily detained dozens of people linked to the ongoing, largely peaceful, protests and beaten many of them, Human Rights...
View ArticleGood Samaritan Backfire
or How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help I live in a new gilded age in a golden city. But sometimes the cracks show, even here. The façade crumbles and you find yourself naked, in...
View Article“No Right to Live”
Summary On the morning of February 28, 2013, the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party called a strike to protest the death penalty handed down against its leader, Delwar Hossain Sayedee, who had been...
View Article“Why Are You Keeping Me Here?”
Summary Greek authorities registered over 3,300 unaccompanied asylum-seeking and migrant children arriving in Greece in the first seven months of 2016. Many of these children had fled violence and...
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