Assange Defense

1 week ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Assange Defense |Geopolitical Issues

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with the UN Human Rights Council on April 7.

3 weeks ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Assange Defense |Geopolitical Issues

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs A federal judge in New Jersey will soon issue a ruling on where the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student who led the student encampment at Columbia University last year, can be litigated.

1 month ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Assange Defense |Geopolitical Issues

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Activists in the Philippines say the stunning arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for a crime against humanity marks a major step toward accountability for the thousands of Filipinos targeted and killed under the pretext of his infamous “war on drugs.” “The arrest of Duterte is highly significant for the cause of international justice because it sends a clear signal that...

2 months ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Assange Defense |Geopolitical Issues

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs No sooner did Donald Trump take the oath of office than he immediately took a wrecking ball to government agencies and programs that protect nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives. States, public interest organizations, schools, doctors, unions, immigrants, federal workers and individuals have filed more than 60 lawsuits challenging Trump’s legal authority to take these actions.