The American Civil Liberties Union warns that face and other biometric surveillance technologies can enable the government to track people’s movements and associations in ways which threaten privacy and due process rights.
Seventeen judges were dismissed on accusations of corruption just a month after two UN Special Rapporteurs recommended that the government stop politically interfering in the judicial system.
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Tennessee law that imposes substantial penalties on groups that foster political participation via voter registration efforts.
UN human rights experts have expressed grave concern at the revocation of the work permit for Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch, urging Israel to reverse a deportation order and to allow him to carry on with his human rights work.