law – Page 18 – People's World

U.S. intransigence on Cuban Five prisoners a high stakes game

May 22, 2012 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

With appeals all but exhausted, the only hope for relief of unremitting judicial abuse of the Cuban Five lies with President Barack Obama.

Thousands wrongly convicted

May 22, 2012 By Dan Margolis

In the last 23 years alone, more than 2,000 people were falsely convicted, but probably far more people are in prison for crimes they did not commit.

Should union organizers get civil rights protections?

April 10, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Workers who are trying to unionize should be added to the groups of people protected by the nation's civil rights laws, two authors say. Currently those laws apply to women and minorities. Their idea, in the...

Lawmakers grant Suriname president immunity for murders

April 6, 2012 By Cory Collins

Suriname parliament granted President Desi Brouterse immunity for 1982 murders, raising ire of human rights groups.

Obama directive removes harshest provisions of the NDAA

March 6, 2012 By Dan Margolis

On Feb. 28, the president issued a directive that softened a provision in the NDAA that would have forced authorities to hold all non-Americans accused of ties to terrorism in military custody.