The European Court of Human Rights is "backsliding" by surreptitiously reversing its principles established to protect asylum seekers, a new study says.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction with a ruling that shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the #MeToo era and left those who testified in the case bracing for a retrial against the ex-movie mogul. The court found the trial []
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction with a ruling that shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the #MeToo era and left those who testified in the case bracing for a retrial against the ex-movie mogul. The court found the trial []
The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned the sex crimes conviction against Harvey Weinstein, the powerful Hollywood producer whose downfall stood as a symbol of the #MeToo movement. The court, by a 4-3 vote, ordered a new trial. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes because that testimony served no material non-propensity purpose,” the ruling,...
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By KAREN MATTHEWS (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial on Thursday after a jury awarded $83.3 million in damages to a longtime magazine columnist who sued the former president for defamation for calling her claim that he had sexually assaulted her […]
"If I have to put a disclaimer on satire, it defeats the whole purpose and goes to the heart of my right under 19(1)(a) and 19(1)(g)," Kamra’s lawyer Navroz Seervai argued in response to govt's proposal to add a "disclaimer" to satirical content.
The periodic review session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Afghanistan’s human rights situation will be held today, Monday, April 29th. The review session, which will run from April 29th to October 10th, will examine the human rights situation of 14 countries, including Afghanistan. On the first day, before lunch, the human rights […]
Natasha K. Natale will assume office May 10, serving the remainder of Gysegem’s unfinished term after his resignation.
The EU has officially opened a significant investigation into Meta for its alleged failures to remove election disinformation. While the European Commission’s statement doesn’t explicitly mention Russia, Meta confirmed to Engadget the EU probe targets the country’s Doppelganger campaign, an online disinformation operation pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda. Bloomberg’s sources also said the probe was focused on the Russian disinformation operation, describing it as a series of “attempts to replicate...
Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is not “necessary” to prevent small boat crossings, Lord David Cameron has said.
Former Chelsea manager André Villas-Boas was elected the new president of Portuguese giant FC Porto on Saturday night. Porto announced Villas-Boas as the new president on their X handle, ending Jor