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05/23/2012
Government Surveillance

ACLU Sues As DOJ Ignores Surveillance Transparency Law

By Avinash Samarth, Human Rights Program at 11:32am
Today the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to force the government to release statistics about its use of powerful electronic surveillance tools that ... Read More
04/21/2012
McCleskey v. Kemp

The U.S. Death Penalty — An International Human Rights Wrong?

By Avinash Samarth, Human Rights Program at 9:51am
In 2011, the top five executioners were China, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and the United States. This is not the company we want to keep. Read More
03/30/2012
U.S. Torture

Europe Makes Progress on Accountability for Torture While U.S. Stalls

By Avinash Samarth, Human Rights Program at 1:09pm
European nations are making slow but steady progress towards holding their own officials accountable for their complicity in the CIA's secret rendition, detention, ... Read More
12/21/2011
Sodium Thiopental

Europe Won't Supply Execution Cocktail to U.S.

By Avinash Samarth, Human Rights Program at 4:58pm
The political gulf between American policy and European policy on capital punishment widened further today as the European Commission released its decision to tighten ... Read More
12/20/2011
Wikileaks

ACLU in Court Today: Government Can't Use Border Checks to Avoid the Bill of Rights

By Avinash Samarth, Human Rights Program at 10:51am
As alleged ‘Wikileak-er’ Pfc. Bradley Manning faces his highly anticipated hearing this week, the government will face its own hearing today in a suit ... Read More
12/09/2011

Bring Human Rights Day Home

By Avinash Samarth, Human Rights Program at 4:57pm
Tomorrow is Human Rights Day and will mark the 63rd anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR, created in response ... Read More
09/29/2011

The Right to Life Denied: Death Penalty Violates the Constitution and International Law

By Avinash Samarth, Human Rights Program at 3:51pm
Yesterday, in Warsaw, Poland, Jamil Dakwar of the ACLU Human Rights Program delivered a statement to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ... Read More
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