August 2010by Dina Temple-Raston The father of the Internet's most famous radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is planning to sue the U.S. government for including his son on a CIA target list. Nasser al-Awlaki...
November 2013Commentary: Iraqis and former US soldiers join forces in fight for justice In early October, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the principal human rights body of the Organization of...
December 2013By ALAN COWELL Published: December 20, 2013 LONDON — After years of argument that has drawn ferocious condemnation from outsiders like President Obama, the Ugandan Parliament approved legislation on...
April 2014...Bihani has never been charged with a crime and is the youngest of seven sons to join the jihad in Afghanistan. Now, as the U.S. is extricating itself from Afghanistan, Bihani wants out of...
October 2014"In October of 2013, Steven Salaita, a tenured professor at Virginia Technical Institute and respected scholar, was offered a tenured position at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (...
James Madison once said that “a popular government without information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” The challenge Madison...
Updated: March 1, 2019
The full panel was as follows: Steven E. Fineman, Managing Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP; Brad N. Friedman, Partner, Milberg LLP; Faith E. Gay, Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart...
Updated: January 26, 2010
August 2012New rules from the Obama Justice Department threaten to return Guantanamo Bay to the legal black hole it was in during the early days of the George W. Bush administration. The rules, which began...
Our May 4 vigil is co-sponsored by the Prison Watch, Healing Justice and Immigrant Rights Programs of the American Friends Service Committee. We will be focusing on the issues of solitary confinement...
Updated: April 23, 2015
What does fur have to do with terrorism? The federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) criminalizes a wide swath of First Amendment-protected advocacy and protest activity by animal rights...
Updated: June 1, 2015
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