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Amnesty International report alleges Pegasus spyware targeted India journalists

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.” This report emerges amidst a global discourse on government use of spyware and in the context of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act , 2023 and recently enacted criminal laws aimed at reform, which have been criticized for increasing state surveillance and being ambiguous.

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Media companies investigating data leak uncover global abuse of cyber-surveillance technology

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The list of numbers includes the editor of the Financial Times, Roula Khalaf, co-founder of Indian news website The Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan, and associates of the murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. These laws, of course, were developed before the widespread use of smartphones and cyber-surveillance technology.

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Black Crime Victims ‘Systematically Excluded’ from Victim Rights Efforts

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Black victims of crime in America are under-represented in the media, and as a result rarely get the institutional and legal recognition given their white counterparts, according to a forthcoming study in the Lewis & Clark Law Review. . Itay Ravid is an Assistant Professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

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The Case for Punishing ‘Police Bystanders’

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For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.

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President Reagan shooter given unconditional release by US judge

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Hinckley was sent to a Washington D.C. After Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity at trial but has since received mental health treatment. mental hospital for treatment but since 2016 has resided in Virginia.

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Probation Puts Drug Offenders at Greater Risk of Returning to Prison: Paper

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The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. To put this into perspective, Schuman cites a study in Washington D.C. Can Drug Treatment Work?

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How the ‘Disenfranchisement Maze’ Bars Black Women from the Ballot

The Crime Report

Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S.

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