A legal group wants President Donald Trump to unblock users from his Twitter account, arguing that his account constitutes a “designated public forum.” Blocking individuals is, therefore, a violation of constitutional rights, the lawyers claim. On Tuesday, lawyers from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sent a letter to Trump, asking him to […]
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FISA court finds NSA violated search restrictions, spied on Americans
Intelligence agencies under former President Barack Obama routinely violated privacy rights, conducted illegal searches and gathered information on US citizens, according to a FISA court that called their conduct “a very serious Fourth Amendment issue.” Earlier this month, the Director of National Intelligence released a court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that found illegal […]
Court finds that Norway has not violated the human rights of mass killer Anders Breivik
NTB Scanpix/Lise Aaserud via REUTERS OSLO (Reuters) – Norway has not violated the human rights of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, an appeals court ruled on Wednesday, overturning a previous verdict that his near total isolation in a three-room cell was inhuman. Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, detonated a bomb in Oslo in July 2011 that […]
Turkey violated Greek airspace 138 times in one day – Defense Ministry
Tensions between Greece and Turkey – both NATO members – are mounting after Athens accused Ankara of violating Greek airspace above historically disputed islets, and with the fallout over Greece’s refusal to hand over coup suspects to Turkey still fresh. The Greek Defense Ministry said it has registered 138 violations of the country’s airspace on […]