(ZH) – Julian Assange accused a “weak” Ecuador of starting to “lean on the United States and the UK for various kinds of support” last October – which he linked to the deteriorating conditions at the country’s London embassy where he has been living for nearly seven years. Assange made the comments during an October 29, 2018 court hearing requesting the […]
Source : Le Parisien, Fabien Paillot, 01-03-2019
Un plombier à la retraite, qui avait refusé un stage de citoyenneté, était jugé a Angoulême ce vendredi pour avoir installé des panneaux visant des personnalités politiques.
Source : Syndicat de la Magistrature, 27-02-2019
Nous avons dénoncé lundi une note interne qui donne notamment pour instruction aux magistrats du parquet de Paris de ne lever les gardes à vue de « gilets jaunes » ne donnant lieu à aucune poursuite que « le samedi soir ou le dimanche matin », et ce « afin d’éviter que les intéressés grossissent à nouveau les rangs des fauteurs de troubles ».
(MEE) – The killing of hundreds of Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border in the last year might be categorized as war crimes, UN investigators have suggested. More than 250 Palestinians were killed and 26,000 injured since weekly “Great March of Return” protests began in March 2018. The new report said that the killing of largely unarmed […]
Last week, Canadian feminist and journalist, Meghan Murphy, announced that she is suing Twitter.
(ANTIWAR.COM) – Officially, the US government has barely conceded that there is an investigation into WikiLeaks at all. Yet after years of efforts to quietly vilify the whistleblower for its publications. The efforts to overtly criminalize the group are picking up pace. The government has accidentally admitted to charges against Assange, at least in secret, and WikiLeaks is […]
A political coalition representing Israel’s Palestinian minority – currently the third biggest faction in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset – has been plunged into crisis by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to call for a surprise general election for April.
Long-simmering ideological and personal tensions within the Joint List, comprising Israel’s four main Palestinian parties, have erupted into a split over who should dominate the faction.
(ZH) — Is the government shutdown also Vladimir Putin’s fault? Following a report released Tuesday by the FBI, we imagine it’s only a matter of time before Rachel Maddow and the rest of the left-leaning cable news commentariat come to that conclusion. In a 72-page-report and press conference, the FBI on Tuesday attacked President Trump for allowing […]
The allegations contained in the complaints [against Judge Kavanaugh] are serious, but the Judicial Council is obligated to adhere to the Act. Lacking statutory authority to do anything more, the complaints must be dismissed because an intervening event – Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court – has made the complaints no longer appropriate for consideration under the Act…. Because it lacks jurisdiction to do so, the Council makes no findings on the merits of the complaints.
— Order of the Judicial Council of the US Tenth Circuit, December 18, 2018
On June 29, 2015 the United States Supreme Court argued in Glossip v. Gross that executions may continue with the use of lethal drug cocktails including the use of midazolam, an extremely painful drug, which in effect, burns to death the condemned by scorching internal organs. The use of midazolam, according to the Court, does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment. The Court found that condemned prisoners can only challenge their method of execution after providing a known and available alternative method.
