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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.

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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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Canada Supreme Court Considers ‘Extreme Intoxication’ Defense in Murder Trial

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The law led an Ontario trial judge to convict Chan of manslaughter and aggravated assault, despite finding that he, with no apparent rational motive for the attack, had been in a drug-induced, “not reasonably foreseeable” psychosis that rendered him incapable of knowing that his actions were wrong, or of reasonably controlling them.

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US Senate blocks DC criminal reform bill from going into effect

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The US Senate Wednesday blocked a Washington DC criminal law reform bill. A joint resolution to disapprove of the bill passed the Senate in a vote of 81-14, with 33 Democrats and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) joining all Senate Republicans.

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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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‘Just Prosecutors’ Take Lessons From Hip Hop, BLM

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criminal legal system and turns even so-called progressive prosecutors into “win-seekers rather than neutral agents of justice,” warns a Virginia law professor. criminal legal system, needs to be fundamentally reimagined. This academic year, the WLU Law students voted him Faculty Member of the Year.