• Liberties lost

  Baltimore Sun Besides all his other gifts, Thomas Jefferson appears to have been prophetic. -In his first presidential inaugural...

   

• ‘Use children as medicine guinea pigs’

  Children should be used as guinea pigs in clinical research to speed up medical breakthroughs and improve treatment for them,...

   

• Man Busted For Reciting First Amendment

  Reverend Billy was arrested and detained last night while reciting the First Amendment in Union Square. The police claimed...

   

• UK smoking ban is just the start. Could your home be next?

  The man behind the ban on smoking in pubs and enclosed public spaces hasn’t finished yet. He wants to extend prohibition...

   

• Supreme Court Limits Students’ Speech Rights

  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A high school student’s ”Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner got slapped down by the Supreme...

   

• Judge Orders FBI to Turn Over Thousands of Patriot Act Abuse Documents

  By Ryan Singel Wired Just one day after a news that an internal audit found that FBI agents abused a Patriot Act power more...

   

• Journalists lawsuit against Yahoo! grows

  Jailed Chinese reporter Shi Tao seeks compensation from major U.S. Internet company for identifying him to the government By...

   

• End secret detention, rights groups tell US

  By Alex Spillius in Washington The Telegraph  Dozens of prisoners who have disappeared after being detained by the CIA as...

   

• Censorship ‘changes face of net’

  Amnesty International has warned that the internet “could change beyond all recognition” unless action is taken...

   

• Guantanamo Prisoner Commits Suicide

  Jane Sutton in Miami A SAUDI Arabian prisoner died of an apparent suicide at the Guantanamo Bay naval base yesterday, the...

   

• Human rights in Iraq: a case to answer

  Revealed: How Lord Goldsmith advised Army chiefs to deny detainees ‘full’ legal protection By Robert Verkaik,...

   

• Medical Experiments Can Be Done Without Patient’s Consent

  ROB STEIN, WASHINGTON POST – The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under...

   

• United Nations: U.S. violated international law

  Evelyn Leopold The United States apparently violated international law in its military tribunals by using coercion to extract...

   

• U.N. rights expert investigating U.S. criticizes counterterror laws

  The Associated Press A U.N. expert on Friday criticized U.S. counterterrorism laws, expressed concern over the use of military...

   

• Groups File Legal Papers Renewing Call For Release of NSA Wiretap Records

  Justice Department Must Stop Covering Up Program Now Known to Be Illegal, Groups Tell Court The American Civil Liberties...

   

• There’s a War Going On (But It’s Under the Radar)

  The Alaska Intel ReportThursday Bill Adams There is a war going on folks. No missiles, no bombs, no bullets, but a war none...

   

• White House Censors Civil Liberties Report

  Larisa Alexandrovna We are fighting the war on terror, so, not only are civil liberties any longer relevant but neither is...

   

• Hundreds of thousands march across US for immigrant rights

  Hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers and their supporters took part in marches and protests in Los Angeles, New York,...

   

• US moves to limit lawyers’ access to Guantanamo inmates

  Tom Carter In the wake of recent revelations of widespread torture and abuse at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, the US Justice...

   

• UK supermarkets are ‘driving down wages of world’s poorest workers’

  Susie Mesure The low prices enjoyed by shoppers at British supermarkets are paid for by poor wages, job insecurity and a...