Immigration: Wants to repeal law that criminalizes unauthorized border crossings.
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Federal law criminalizes the leaking of certain types of information.
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US law criminalizes certain illegal sexual conduct by American citizens abroad.
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Outlawing D&E, abortion rights groups argue, effectively criminalizes second-trimester abortions.
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Alabama's ban criminalizes abortion providers, not women who seek this type of care.
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India might finally remove a 157-year-old law that criminalizes gay sex.
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In May, Alabama passed the "Human Life Protection Act," which criminalizes all abortion.
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The law also criminalizes the act of forcing women to wear such garments.
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How would the Roberts Court view a law that criminalizes falsehoods about elections?
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For example, 6900 USC Section 2628(a) criminalizes the production of child pornography.
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The police have charged him under the act that criminalizes caste-based violence.
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But it criminalizes the illicit quid pro quo agreement, not the presidential act.
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The Democrat-led state Senate voted to keep a law that criminalizes abortion.
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Police charged the alleged killer under an act that criminalizes caste-based violence.
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His new Executive Order criminalizes asylum-seekers and seeks to indefinitely detain their children.
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"We are not yet a country that criminalizes people for their thoughts," Stelzig said.
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They say the law wrongly criminalizes methods to research and report on the issue.
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Wade, and criminalizes abortion after 24 weeks unless the woman's life is at risk.
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SpaceX blasts off; Poland criminalizes the act of blaming Polish people for Holocaust complicity.
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Defense lawyers argue that the system still criminalizes far too many low-level offenses.
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It is pejorative and purposely demeaning because it criminalizes the person, not the act.
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The federal law criminalizes violence based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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The current policy of separating families criminalizes parents who are seeking safety for their children.
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To be sure, the law criminalizes conspiracy, so it would not capture "lone wolf" attackers.
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Clinton or her aides under a statute that criminalizes "gross negligence" in handling classified information.
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The pressure effectively criminalizes much of the work that Greenwald and other investigative reporters produce.
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The law criminalizes "forcing or influencing" a voter to cast or not cast a vote.
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Current state law re-criminalizes Floridians who mistakenly register if they have outstanding financial obligations.
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The new law criminalizes the spread of "false statements of fact," as defined by the government.
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It criminalizes false statements or concealment within the jurisdiction of any branch of the federal government.
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The bill "criminalizes activities that are fully legitimate," the two European bodies wrote in their report.
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"It is regrettable that no law currently exists which criminalizes Gary's reprehensible conduct," the ruling reads.
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The state criminalizes "unnatural acts" which often translates into persecution of gays, human rights groups say.
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And it also criminalizes animal cruelty if the wrongdoers create and sell videos depicting the act.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that criminalizes state officials illegally enriching themselves.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament on Thursday approved a bill that criminalizes state officials illegally enriching themselves.
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Worse still, the excessive punishment levied on people who evade subway fares in essence criminalizes poverty.
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The NGO Law criminalizes legitimate civil society work, curtails funding and imposes prison and heavy fines.
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It criminalizes the procedure for physicians, who could face up to 99 years in prison if convicted.
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"I feel like we're closer than ever to repealing the 8th Amendment [which criminalizes abortion]," Kavanagh says.
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First, let's consider: Federal law criminalizes "knowingly and willfully" threatening to kill or physically harm the president.
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The charges against him could include violating the Espionage Act, which criminalizes releasing information regarding national defense.
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Wade was passed — no bill that criminalizes abortion will stop anyone from making this incredibly personal choice.
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What they want instead is a well-defined law that criminalizes polygamy, unilateral divorce and child marriage.
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"This is a cruel system that criminalizes people who pose no danger to this country," Duran wrote.
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The Republic of Ireland's constitution currently criminalizes the procedure except when the mother's life is at risk.
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It criminalizes the disclosure of potentially damaging national security secrets to someone not authorized to receive them.
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"Still it has been worrying us from the start that Hungary criminalizes people fleeing war," he said.
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"The statute criminalizes the conduct of those who attempt to intimidate witnesses, not just those who succeed."
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She could face 14 years in prison for it under Irish law, which criminalizes women who have abortions.
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A Thai lese-majeste, or royal insult, law criminalizes anything deemed to be an insult to the monarchy.
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Constitutional experts believe the judgment has a bearing on broader civil rights, and a law that criminalizes homosexuality.
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Myra Crownover, when asking Paxton to take up the issue last November, noted how Texas typically criminalizes gambling.
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In June 2018, for example, the Hungarian Parliament passed a law that criminalizes aid to refugees and migrants.
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On Tuesday, Alabama lawmakers will take up a bill that bans most abortions completely and criminalizes the procedure.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - A new law in Senegal that criminalizes rape has come too late for one young woman.
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The law aims to defend the "good name of Poland," but instead it criminalizes talk about historical truths.
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Campaigners broadly welcomed the new law, which criminalizes "harassment, aggression, sexual exploitation or ill treatment of women" in Morocco.
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Law 534, which criminalizes homosexuality as an "act against nature" remains on the books despite efforts to abolish it.
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The current law that criminalizes fornication is included in the state's criminal code chapter on offenses against the family.
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The other would ratify the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC convention), which criminalizes transnational organized crime.
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Religious hardliners in Pakistan have, in the past, opposed legislation that criminalizes domestic violence, saying that would "westernize" society.
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These racially skewed policing decisions begin an official process that formally criminalizes millions of people of color every year.
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The new legislation bans foreign interference in politics and criminalizes those who damage Australia's economic relations with another country.
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The way to end this nightmare is to rescind the zero tolerance policy that criminalizes immigrants and asylum seekers.
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First Amendment doctrine criminalizes a very narrow strip of abusive speech, like directly inciting violence or spewing credible threats.
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He emphasized that the new law criminalizes only violent video or audio that is produced by perpetrators or accomplices.
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The law criminalizes 'anyone who challenges, either directly or indirectly, the religion or justice of the King or Crown Prince.
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The law criminalizes violence and attempted violence directed at individuals because of their race, gender, national origin and sexual orientation.
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Even if the privilege did apply, there is no law that prohibits — let alone criminalizes — the disclosure of presidential communications.
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Rafizi Ramli is the second opposition leader to be investigated under a law passed in April that criminalizes "fake news".
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Legislation that criminalizes drug use during pregnancy effectively turns pregnant women into suspects in crimes many aren't even aware of.
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To Williamson, the logic motivating this ruling is just another example of the way in which our society criminalizes victims.
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If so, then Trump Organization officials might have violated a New York state law that criminalizes falsification of business records.
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It criminalizes deepfakes that are used to harm the political process but provides numerous exemptions, including for parody and satire.
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Rights groups say, while the article does not specifically mention same-sex conduct, it effectively criminalizes all same-sex relationships.
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Opponents of cash bail have long argued that it criminalizes poverty, tilting the justice system in favor of wealthy defendants.
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One side says bail criminalizes the poor because rich people can bail themselves out with indifference to the alleged offense.
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" "The prosecution criminalizes investigative journalism reporting on human rights violations in the Rakhine state, issues of the highest public interest.
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This bad verdict will have a chilling effect on police officers across the city because it criminalizes a tragic accident.
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" The law criminalizes false statements that threaten Singapore's national security, "public tranquility" and the "friendly relations of Singapore with other countries.
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This legislation, which grants fetuses full personhood, criminalizes abortion after six weeks—which is often before people even know they're pregnant.
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Moss was referring to a federal statute that criminalizes making "any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation" to Congress.
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Hogan claims he would have pressed hazing charges as well, but the state only criminalizes hazing in colleges, not high schools.
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Najib's government passed a law in April that criminalizes "fake news", making it one of the first countries to do so.
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The law criminalizes providing an abortion at any stage during a pregnancy, threatening doctors with prison sentences up to 99 years.
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The bill, introduced by the government in 2016, prohibits discrimination and criminalizes forced labor, begging and sexual abuse of transgender people.
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John Conyers and Elijah Cummings, cited federal law that criminalizes attempts to delay or obstruct witnesses, like Comey, from providing testimony.
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More than one expert has remarked that America criminalizes the mentally ill and uses jails as de facto mental health institutions.
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The government has brought 65 cases against people who posted on social media under a military-era law that criminalizes defamation.
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Current federal law prohibits animal fighting and only criminalizes animal cruelty if the wrongdoers create and sell videos depicting the act.
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The law criminalizes violent acts committed against people because of their religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
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The law essentially criminalizes speech, he said, and the Supreme Court looks very skeptically at laws that may infringe upon that right.
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In 2013, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups struck down part of the state's law, saying it criminalizes intimate relationships among consenting adults.
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The news release said this is believed to be the first case under law 18 U.S.C. 116, which criminalizes female genital mutilation.
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Instead, activists and politicians are now focusing on securing an amendment to the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, which criminalizes abortion.
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But that's a strike against, not for, the campus courts: The expanding definition of sexual assault criminalizes bad sex and trivializes rape.
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The federal code criminalizes a wide range of violent acts, hate crimes, and civil rights violations to prosecute perpetrators of mass attacks.
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There are a lot of misconceptions about the scheduling system — most notably that it ranks drugs by their danger and criminalizes them.
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The World War I-era law criminalizes the disclosure of potentially damaging national security secrets to someone not authorized to receive them.
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Monsignor Capella is the first cleric to stand trial under a 2013 law that criminalizes the possession and distribution of child pornography.
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And whether Mr. Trump succeeded in his efforts is legally irrelevant, because federal law criminalizes attempted obstruction as well as successful obstruction.
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Others have been charged with violating restrictions on public gatherings or contravening a law that criminalizes perceived insults of Thailand's royal family.
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Alabama's law bans the procedure at any stage of pregnancy and criminalizes it, with doctors facing up to 99 years in prison.
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As was the case in India, Malaysia also criminalizes same-sex relations under Section 377, based on the original British colonial legislation.
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They also say that beyond the specific issue of family detention, they are protesting the broader immigration enforcement apparatus that criminalizes undocumented people.
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I was there to talk about Gavin's story and the legislation that criminalizes transgender people for using the bathroom of their gender identity.
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The California penal code criminalizes the smoking and ingesting of cannabis in prison, but it doesn't address possession, Presiding Justice Vance Raye wrote.
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Passed in November 2014 by the Harper government, C-36 criminalizes pretty much every aspect of sex work except for the act itself.
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In the UK, the Digital Economy Bill criminalizes a range of consensual adult practices and puts small-scale feminist pornographers out of business.
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Eric Greitens signed into law a bill that criminalizes sharing or threatening to share "revenge porn" -- an offense of which he was accused.
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Sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal said prosecutors could use the Espionage Act, which criminalizes the disclosure of national defense-related information.
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Gathered in a "Pink Dot" demonstration in Singapore, protesters demanded the repeal of a statute that criminalizes sex between men in the country.
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Singapore: The country's high court upheld a rarely used law that criminalizes sex between men, dismissing three appeals that argued it was unconstitutional.
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Singapore: The country's high court upheld a rarely used colonial-era law that criminalizes sex between men, despite polls suggesting changing public attitudes.
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The "unlawful posting" law itself is problematic because it is overly broad and potentially criminalizes speech protected by the First Amendment, he said.
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One section of the penal code, for example, criminalizes assault on a woman "with intent to outrage her modesty," without defining specific offenses.
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The shows rarely provoke a discussion, like confronting racism in an overwhelmingly monoethnic culture or discussing LGBTQ rights in a country that criminalizes homosexuality.
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The measure would amend a 19th century state law that criminalizes attempts to "procure the miscarriage of a woman," or, in modern terms, abortion.
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I can't help but feel like the same network that is known for running news that criminalizes victims of police violence is trolling me.
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All photos courtesy of the Open Society Foundations The United Nations' global drug policy criminalizes most of the popular ways to get fucked up.
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The bill criminalizes the denial of crimes committed by "Ukrainian nationalists and members of Ukrainian formations collaborating with the German Third Reich", it said.
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During the first Democratic primary debate in June, Castro challenged his fellow candidates to support the repeal of a law that criminalizes border crossings.
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But the epidemic continues to grow, aided by a legal system that criminalizes victims and a health care framework that treats patients as consumers.
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First came Julián Castro, who directly attacked O'Rourke for declining to endorse repeal of Section 1325, which criminalizes unauthorized entry into the United States.
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A colonial-era law that criminalizes homosexual sex is viewed by many as a blot on the idea of India as a liberal democracy.
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But Mr. Azzat added that because Malaysia's colonial-era Sedition Act criminalizes open criticism of the monarchy, the palace's critics tend to keep quiet.
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How can art institutions claim to be stalwarts of social justice while fueling the uneven accumulation of wealth in a society that criminalizes poverty?
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A government that criminalizes private sexual activity and then imposes brutal execution and torture as the punishment should not be tolerated anywhere in the world.
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But they are not spared by the Georgia law, which, as Mark Joseph Stern points out in Slate, has language that criminalizes self-induced abortion.
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It criminalizes deepfakes that are used to influence an election and allows the state to penalize the deepfake creator and the forum, such as YouTube.
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One of the laws criminalizes publishing deepfake videos involving political candidates 60 days before an election after a deepfake video on Nancy Pelosi went viral.
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The law criminalizes the exchange of anything of value for drugs, regardless of whether someone is a full-time dealer or merely passing drugs on.
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It criminalizes the "knowing" use of the internet to distribute nudes or sexually explicit photos of an identifiable person with "reckless disregard" for that person's consent.
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The report comes as Poland is under fire from historians and Jewish organizations for a new law that criminalizes saying Poland has responsibility for the Holocaust.
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"It helped to make me feel human in a system that often criminalizes people for like the smallest of things, bad choices, wrong place wrong time."
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Abortion is part of New York's penal code rather than its public-health code, and criminalizes termination after 213 weeks except to save the mother's life.
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In 2013, however, a sliver of hope presented itself in the form of the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, which criminalizes marriage to children under 16.
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The mother-of-three was charged under Uganda's Anti-Pornography Act, which criminalizes the production and circulation of "pornographic material," including on messaging apps like WhatsApp.
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If hiQ attempted to circumvent the block, LinkedIn said, it could face prosecution under the 1986 computer fraud law, which criminalizes unauthorized access to a computer.
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Some, including Sanders, have said they would repeal the law that criminalizes crossing the border and has been used to separate migrant children from their families.
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Background: The Espionage Act, a World War I-era law, criminalizes the disclosure of potentially damaging national security secrets to someone not authorized to receive them.
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El Salvador is one of a handful of countries in the world that criminalizes abortion in all instances, including cases of rape, incest, and medical emergencies.
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"This isn't a public health bill, it's a criminalization bill," Kanya Bennett, ACLU'S senior legislative counsel, said, likening it to legislation that criminalizes marijuana and fentanyl.
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The CFAA criminalizes unauthorized access to a computer or computer network, and the Wiretap Act prohibits use of a tool to intercept calls, texts or emails.
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It would exempt Californians over the age of 21 from a state law that criminalizes mushrooms containing psilocybin, the compound that gives some mushrooms psychedelic properties.
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The Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Amnesty International said Monday that the bill "criminalizes humanitarian and legal assistance," threatening them with prison terms of up to a year.
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In North Carolina, the legislature recently passed a bill that criminalizes doctors who provide life-saving care to women who may need an abortion later in pregnancy.
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The figures were published as politicians and charities launched a campaign to abolish the 195-year-old Vagrancy Act, which criminalizes rough sleeping in England and Wales.
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On Tuesday, the court heard a challenge to Section 377, a colonial-era law that criminalizes sex between consenting lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) partners.
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An extension of Black Lives Matter, the Movement 4 Black Lives has gained popularity because it promotes "divestment from a system that criminalizes and incarcerates" black people.
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The fact that the very politicians responsible for maintaining a system that criminalizes drugs and drug users had been at it themselves shows a clear double standard.
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President Trump has spent much of his first year doubling down on an enforcement-only approach that criminalizes work and harms immigrant and native-born workers alike.
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Ahmad Seddeeq, the imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Iceland, called it "a contravention to the religious rights of freedom" that criminalizes a centuries-old tradition.
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It also criminalizes acts that shouldn't be crimes at all — such as consensual sex, loss of faith in Islam ("apostasy") and the right to criticize it ("blasphemy").
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The Espionage Act is a World War I-era law that criminalizes the disclosure of potentially damaging national security secrets to someone not authorized to receive them.
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The trial court had no problem convicting the governor under the Hobbs Act, which criminalizes government officials who receive payments or bribes in exchange for official acts.
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Tracing to a law enacted in 1871, the so-called Ku Klux Klan Act criminalizes certain types of politically motivated violence that today would be called terrorism.
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Ortis is charged with five criminal counts including the rarely used Canadian version of the Espionage Act, which criminalizes the leaking of secrets to a foreign power.
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Despite Stephen Harper-era laws that criminalizes the sex trade, passed in 2014, the VPD issued its own directive not to target, harass, arrest, or intimidate sex workers.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill today that criminalizes the use of "ticket bots," which allow resellers to quickly purchase tickets before legitimate customers can get to them.
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For example, one law that addresses cyberstalking also criminalizes some types of offline stalking, so it can't be used to measure solely the number of federal cyberstalking cases.
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Most notably, Alabama's governor recently signed into law the nation's most restrictive abortion bill, which bans abortions at every stage of pregnancy and criminalizes the procedure for doctors.
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Human rights advocates believe that the Iraqi law, which criminalizes belonging to a terrorist organization, falls short in delivering justice because it does not consider the underlying crime.
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And now the Holocaust bill, which criminalizes statements that the Polish nation had any responsibility in the Holocaust, may complicate our good relationship with our non-Jewish neighbors.
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A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked Georgia's "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban, which prohibits and criminalizes abortions as early as 6 weeks into a pregnancy, the AP reports.
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Then they started to censor and control the internet through Cyber Crimes Laws—federal regulations approved shortly after the 2009 protests that criminalizes behaviors the government deems inappropriate online.
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Jasmine was an outspoken sex worker's rights advocate, arguing against a system called the "Swedish model," which criminalizes the clients of sex workers but not the sex workers themselves.
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In a broken system that penalizes and criminalizes our most vulnerable citizens, it is always difficult to distinguish between victimhood and self-determination, between forced choices and bad choices.
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Then Alabama's Governor Kay Ivey signs into law the most extreme abortion ban since Roe that criminalizes doctors for up to 99 years for performing safe, legal abortion care.
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Still, she says there's a long way to go to reform a system that criminalizes people who seek out jobs or refuge in this country without the proper paperwork.
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The legislation bans abortions at every stage of pregnancy and criminalizes the procedure for doctors, who could be charged with felonies and face up to 99 years in prison.
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Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that criminalizes same-sex relations and that uses sharia as its legal code in addition to the national criminal code.
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Director of the Denver City Council and author of the controversial "camping ban" which essentially criminalizes homelessness, Brooks oversees the warehouse district where Rhinoceropolis, and other underground venues, are located.
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The main laws governing prostitution in the UK are still the 1956 Sexual Offenses Act, which makes brothel-keeping an offense, and the 1959 Street Offenses Act, which criminalizes solicitation.
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He has pledged to abolish Article 230 of the penal code, which criminalizes same-sex relations, increase punishments for homophobic attacks, and allow transgender people to change their legal identity.
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Iraq's antiterrorism law is a catchall that criminalizes membership in a terrorist organization, so the ISIS cook may face the same penalty as the bomb maker: life imprisonment or death.
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The Alabama law bans abortions at every stage of pregnancy and criminalizes the procedure for doctors, who could be charged with felonies and face up to 99 years in prison.
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The San Francisco school board recently passed a resolution limiting the role of the police on school campuses, acknowledging that law enforcement's presence criminalizes students under the guise of protection.
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This court-created split reverberates beyond campaign electioneering to issues like how the IRS polices politics, how the Department of Justice criminalizes political activity, and how the parties influence campaigns.
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The legislation criminalizes health providers who offer abortion care after a fetal heartbeat is detected, slapping them with with a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to one year in prison.
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" But Patrick Lynch, the president of the city's largest police union, said the verdict "will have a chilling effect on police officers across the city because it criminalizes a tragic accident.
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While the law criminalizes rape, victims often withdraw charges due to compensation from the accused, family pressure or threats, according to the 2018 U.S. State Department human rights report on Namibia.
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We live in a society that jointly shames and criminalizes people for making money with sex work, and punishes them for not obeying the law with what income they do earn.
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Not even halfway into the Trump administration, we have witnessed a hate campaign against the Dreamer generation, usually articulated as an aggressive law-and-order discourse that criminalizes young undocumented Americans.
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But Moroccan law, drafted under French colonialism, still criminalizes a wide range of "immoral" and un-Islamic behavior, such as drinking, doing drugs, having sex outside of marriage, homosexuality and prostitution.
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Wade decision established a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, New York state law (created three years before the Supreme Court decision) criminalizes abortion after 24 weeks unless the woman is dying.
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This year's march came amid two sets of tensions — one spurred by Poland's adoption of the so-called "Holocaust law," which criminalizes speech accusing that nation of complicity in the Nazi atrocities.
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The vote on the legislation, which criminalizes speech suggesting Polish complicity in Nazi crimes against the Jews, had already caused uproar in Israel when it passed through Poland's lower house on Friday.
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While Cooper gets calls from parents frantic about disabled children lost in the system, her work also includes unaccompanied minors, the children with no parents ensnared in a system that effectively criminalizes immigration.
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Described by activists as "Stalinist," the law criminalizes criticism of the government and forces internet companies to store data locally and hand over user information to authorities without the need for a warrant.
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This law criminalizes independent artistic activity and gives art inspectors the right to impose a fine or subject artists to asset forfeiture as a penalty for presenting work without authorization from the state.
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NEW DELHI — India could be on the brink of repealing a 157-year-old law that criminalizes gay sex in what is one of the world's largest and longest-running LGBT legal battles.
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"This practice, which H.B. 2023 criminalizes, is especially prevalent in communities that have experienced state-sanctioned discrimination and thus prefer to entrust party officials to ensure that their ballots are counted," he said.
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"It peels away the veneer of progress under Mohammed bin Salman and reveals the Kingdom's true intolerant face which criminalizes people's identities, as well as progressive and reformist thoughts and ideas at home."
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Still, among the Islamic State's many enemies, Saudi Arabia is the only one that considers the Quran and other religious texts its constitution, criminalizes apostasy and bans all forms of unsanctioned public religion.
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Meanwhile, Article 8 gives the government broad powers to reproduce work that is not its own: This means that the government is exempt from Article 23, which criminalizes the theft of another's work.
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But the sacrifice is the point: Hsiung and his colleagues are trying to highlight the sickness of a society that criminalizes doing what any child would recognize as the right thing to do.
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It takes aim at "decades of failed policies" that "created an unjust, unequal, and vastly expansive system that disproportionately harms communities of color and criminalizes individuals just because they are poor," Harris wrote.
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" Other states just prohibit taking pictures at work if you work on a farm: Kansas criminalizes "enter(ing) an animal facility to take pictures by photograph, video camera or by any other means.
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Although Kenya struck down the change to the law that criminalizes homosexuality in May -- and remains a deeply conservative and religious society -- its courts has shown some independence in recent years regarding LGBTQ matters.
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Meanwhile, Northern Ireland has proposed the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill, which criminalizes the men who buy sex, rather than the women in the sex industry—a proposal otherwise known as the Swedish model.
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Receiving a parole violation every time he crosses state lines, is undoubtedly preventing him from doing his job, and criminalizes him as he tries to move further from the life he used to lead.
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She and others in the anti-trafficking movement, including New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, have embraced what's known as the Nordic model, which criminalizes anyone who buys or enables the buying of sex.
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In some cases it not only makes us less safe -- by destabilizing families and communities -- but also unjustly criminalizes conduct that is the byproduct of mental illness, drug addiction or the manifestations of poverty.
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Myanmar has a law that criminalizes "unnatural sex", which Hla Myat Tun said was rarely enforced but fueled discrimination against LGBT people who are often denied jobs or fired if their identity becomes known.
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Meanwhile, in Ontario, Canada—a territory that also criminalizes HIV non-disclosure—the attorney general and health minister issued a joint statement promising they wouldn't prosecute people who are on treatment and virally suppressed.
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The Irrawaddy itself was recently sued by the military under the Telecommunications Act, which criminalizes online defamation, for its coverage of fighting between government troops and an insurgent group known as the Arakan Army.
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The details: The legislation bans abortions at every stage of pregnancy — starting at conception — and criminalizes the procedure for doctors, who could be charged with felonies and face up to 231 years in prison.
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Human Rights Watch said in its 2017 report on Afghanistan that the country's law criminalizes consensual same-sex sexual conduct, and the report cited harassment, violence and detention of gay people by the police.
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Most of the prosecutions of journalists and critics have come under more recent legislation, a broad provision of the 2013 Telecommunications Law that criminalizes "defaming, disturbing, causing undue influence or threatening any person" online.
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"It's never in society's best interest to incarcerate for the content of their speech where there was not a specific statute that criminalizes such speech at the time it was made," Cataldo said Friday.
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The pro-government assembly agreed to revoke the law that criminalizes money exchange and eliminate an article from the law governing the Venezuelan Central Bank, to allow the sale and purchase of foreign currency.
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The assembly voted to approve a proposal to revoke the law that criminalizes money exchange and to change the law governing the Venezuelan Central Bank to allow the sale and purchase of foreign currency.
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More recently, a new statute in North Dakota, arguably prompted by protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline, criminalizes masking, and a new bill in Missouri would introduce an anti-masking law to the criminal code.
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The facts are that poc, women, and queer police are complicit in upholding the same law and order that routinely criminalizes and terrorizes black and brown and poor folks, especially youth, trans, and houseless folks.
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NEW DELHI — In a possible advance for gay rights in India, the Supreme Court ordered a review on Monday of Section 377, a colonial-era law reinstated in 20133 that criminalizes consensual sex between men.
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In 2013, it enacted a so-called anti-propaganda law that criminalizes promoting or celebrating non-straight conduct and identity — while government officials claimed that all Russians were entitled to protection from discrimination and violence.
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In the UAE, which criminalizes homosexuality, the company's logs show that Clearview has provided its software to two entities, including Mubadala Investment Company, the country's sovereign wealth fund, which has run more than 100 searches.
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Today the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether a federal statute that criminalizes any person who encourages a non-citizen to come to, or reside in, the United States, should be struck down.
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Some legal experts said that if Trump and his advisers knowingly solicited help from Russia, they may have violated campaign finance laws, and a statute that criminalizes conspiracies to impair the functioning of the U.S. government.
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Washington (CNN)Only male Alabama senators voted Tuesday to pass the most restrictive abortion bill in the country, which criminalizes abortion in the state and bans the procedure in nearly all cases including rape and incest.
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State lawmakers didn't waste much time, moving two months later to pass a new facility trespass bill that criminalizes the use of deception to enter an agricultural production business to cause an "injury" to the entity.
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In this respect, 2339B, which is responsible for 80% of ISIS prosecutions, criminalizes assistance to a "foreign terrorist organization" where "assistance" is broadly interpreted as including financial services, lodging, weapons, communication equipment or facilities and more.
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" Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's largest police union, denounced the verdict, saying it would have "a chilling effect on police officers across the city because it criminalizes a tragic accident.
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In Illinois, lawmakers are attempting to repeal several decades-old measures, including a 44-year-old dormant law that criminalizes abortion providers and allows husbands to obtain an injunction to block their partners from seeking an abortion.
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To name just a few examples, a 85033 anti-protest law significantly curtails Egyptians' ability to participate in peaceful public meetings and assembly, while a recent amendment to Egypt's penal code criminalizes organizations that receive foreign funding.
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Rather, they have been handicapped by stagnant wages, costly birth control and child care, a shortage of affordable housing, and by a justice system that criminalizes poverty and race, which in turn leads to discrimination by employers.
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Members of the LGBT community, who already face persecution and discrimination in the country, could also be targeted with a vaguely-worded article that criminalizes "obscene acts" with a penalty of up to six months in prison.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The ACLU filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging an Ohio law that criminalizes abortions if a doctor performing a termination is aware that the woman has received a diagnosis that her fetus has Down syndrome.
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On Wednesday, the dating app announced a new safety feature called Traveler Alert that will inform LGBTQ users when they've entered a part of the world that criminalizes same-sex consensual activity and hide their profiles by default.
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He oversaw the creation of the Computer Crimes Laws, which criminalizes a number of online activities that limit freedom of expression, and implementation of internet censorship and surveillance, including blocking mainstream platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Egypt's parliament amended its antiquities protection law to impose tougher jail sentences and higher fines for smuggling antiquities out of the country, and for the first time criminalizes climbing the country's monuments.
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In a new legal opinion, Mr. Schneiderman said the 1970 state law, which criminalizes abortion past 24 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother's life is endangered, did not square with the later Supreme Court decisions in Roe v.
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In "Full Moon in a Dark Night," Mr. Sankar Bose set his sights on the psychic landscape of the L.G.B.T.Q. community living in the shadow of a colonial-era law, Section 377, which criminalizes same-sex sexual activity.
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The reason that they are separating these little children from their families is that they are using section 1325 of that Act which criminalizes coming across the border to incarcerate the pr—the parents and then separate them.
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"Dutch law offers a unique provision which criminalizes the act of profiting from exploitation," said Barbara van Straaten, a lawyer with Prakken d'Oliveira, a law firm in the Netherlands that specializes in human rights cases and filed the complaint.
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It criminalizes all perceived insults of the monarchy and prescribes jail terms of up to 15 years for each count of offending the king, queen, heir or regent, although it has also been interpreted to extend to dead kings.
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The Justice Department prosecuted Ms. Winner under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law that criminalizes the unauthorized disclosure of national-security secrets that could be used to harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary.
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Five judges on India's Supreme Court are hearing a challenge to a law that criminalizes homosexual sex — Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, introduced by British colonial authorities in 1861 and kept on the books in independent India.
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But while this policy is a great start—and will give Facebook some much-needed legal cover if federal law ever criminalizes nonconsensual porn—the only way to kill revenge porn is to stop it being posted in the first place.
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In Scotland, a recent vote to develop a version of the so-called Nordic model—a widely-criticized framework that criminalizes clients but not sex workers—has led to sex workers unionizing with the support of trade union GMB Scotland.
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US law criminalizes speech itself only if the speech can be shown to actually incite criminal activity, as for instance a speaker's call to burn down a building, followed by the action of a riotous crowd in setting the fire.
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While the legal age of marriage for women is 16, and the 2009 Elimination of Violence Against Women Law criminalizes child marriage, the law is rarely enforced and familial tradition often holds more sway in matters meant for the court.
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BATH, Maine (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rap mogul Jay-Z is among investors backing a U.S. technology startup helping to free defendants who cannot afford bail, amid moves to reform a system that critics say criminalizes poverty, especially people of color.
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That makes sense as immigration was a top issue in the national conversation during the time the interviews were conducted (June 11-20) with the controversy surrounding a policy that criminalizes undocumented immigrants, causing separation of families in the US system.
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In Kenya, President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a cybercrimes bill, which criminalizes the publication of fake news and imposes hefty fines and a two-year jail term for those found guilty, despite pressure from international media rights group to stop it.
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The law, which criminalizes criticism of the government and obliges internet companies to store data locally and hand over user data to the government without the need for a warrant, came into effect on January 1, according to state media.
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The family had barely turned a corner when, in December 2013, the Supreme Court overturned the previous ruling on Section 377 on the ground that the law criminalizes acts against the order of nature, but does not persecute specific groups.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru has legalized homosexuality, replacing its century-old criminal code with a new law that also criminalizes slavery and broadens the definition of rape to apply to married and unmarried couples.
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"The facts are that poc (people of color), women, and queer police are complicit in upholding the same law and order that routinely criminalizes and terrorizes black and brown and poor folks, especially youth, trans, and houseless folks," the post read.
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State lawmakers had already passed a new law targeting environmental protesters, which allows officers to search activists without a warrant and criminalizes the use of locking devices that make it hard for police to remove protesters during a sit-in.
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The way to address those concerns, according to Labour Party parliament member Sarah Champion, is to pursue laws like FOSTA/SESTA or the "Nordic Model"—a law first popularized by Sweden that criminalizes the buying of sex acts rather than selling them.
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The current framework that criminalizes disability and racial status through the law is clearly one key element of reform, along with effective bias training and community education for law enforcement to help officers better understand how to protect and serve their communities.
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They carried signs reading "My Life Isn't Your Porn," and effigies of the police, who have repeatedly been accused of turning a blind eye to molka cases despite having a law that, on the surface but rarely in practice, criminalizes the practice.
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In Brazil, for example, which criminalizes abortion except in very limited circumstances, one 85033-year-old woman told my colleague she bought pills at a pharmacy and used them to try to end her pregnancy after she was raped at age 13.
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"The reason they're separating these children from their families is that they're using Section 1325 of that act, which criminalizes coming across the border, to incarcerate the parents and then separate them," Castro said, referring to the 1924 Immigration and Nationality Act.
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"Between software patents, anti-circumvention laws like Section 1201 of the DMCA, and laws like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (which potentially criminalizes violating terms of service), we have created a legal doctrine akin to 'felony contempt of business model,'" Doctorow said.
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Sports Briefing | Doping Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, signed a law that criminalizes doping and threatens drug cheats with prison sentences in a move aimed at helping the country avoid sanctions from the World Anti-Doping Agency ahead of the Olympics in August.
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On May 25, the Irish people will decide whether to repeal the 8th amendment, which equates the life of a pregnant woman with that of an embryo or fetus and criminalizes abortion except if continuing a pregnancy would result in certain death.
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TUNIS — The Algerian government is coming under criticism for its treatment of a freelance British-Algerian journalist, Mohamed Tamalt, who died in a hospital on Sunday after being imprisoned under a draconian new law that criminalizes offending the president and state institutions.
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Also on Wednesday, a federal court judge in Colorado heard arguments in a case challenging a 19th century law there that criminalizes the showing of a completed ballot to others, which Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said included posts on social media.
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"The case constitutes a good legal, criminological and social precedent, where a woman who has been a victim of rape and a judicial system that criminalizes and is unjust is absolved," the Foundation for Studies for the Application of Law said in a statement.
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"If we don't stop the source of demand, there will always be someone who will provide the supply by hook or by crook," Wong said, adding that Hong Kong should consider adopting a version of Sweden's 1999 law which criminalizes the purchase of sex.
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This has spooked the financial institutions into de-risking, and that is a problem because de-risking puts lives at risk, criminalizes the innocent—including humanitarian organizations and their beneficiaries—and potentially contributes to the same terrorism financing that the regulators aim to curtail.
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" Balta, who works as a senior producer at MSNBC, highlighted the use of specific language like "army" or "invasion" on Fox News programming to discuss Hispanic people, saying it "criminalizes a community and broadens the national divide incited by the President's incessant negative rhetoric.
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If special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election sought to prosecute Trump Jr. for the meeting, he would likely rely on a campaign finance law that criminalizes accepting "money or other thing of value" from foreign nationals.
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Citing the "constitutional importance" of a petition to reverse its 2013 ruling upholding Section 377 of India's Penal Code — which criminalizes "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" — the three-judge panel decided to refer the petition to a five-judge panel headed by India's chief justice.
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While he described the Vision Fund's investors as "smart and insightful" in how they evaluate deals, "the sourcing of the capital is questionable," said Rabois, who for years has criticized U.S. businesses that take money from a country that criminalizes homosexuality and attacks Jews and women.
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So despite the rhetoric of the right that demonizes, criminalizes and attempts to demoralize and sometimes outright arch-villianize Latinos, every Latino person I met during this episode was very hopeful about their future, no matter how dire their circumstances in the present seemed to me.
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Court to take up case on law that criminalizes encouraging illegal immigration for financial benefit Also Friday, the justices agreed to take up a case regarding a federal law that makes it a crime to encourage or induce illegal immigration for commercial or private financial benefit.
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"I'm in the middle of my second degree and I have the offer of a PhD on the table," says sex worker and advocate Laura Lee, who is taking the Northern Irish government to court over a new law that criminalizes men who pay for sex.
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Mansoor was charged under the draconian 2012 cybercrime law, which criminalizes the publication of any information or rumors online "with intent to make sarcasm or damage the reputation, prestige or stature of the state" or any of its rulers, its institutions, its flag, or its anthem.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court on Tuesday said it will review a decision over whether to uphold a colonial-era law that criminalizes gay sex in a victory for homosexual rights campaigners at a time when the nation is navigating a path between tradition and modernity.
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When we think about police violence—enabled by legislation which criminalizes any part of prostitution—not only as state violence but also as male violence against women, the criminalisation of prostitution comes into focus in a new way: as a key driver of male violence against women.
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He gave several examples of media transmissions that could be considered illegal under the law, which basically criminalizes any adult who distributes content on the internet "with the intent to arouse the sexual desire of any person" if that content is subsequently viewed by a child.
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" As Steven Renderos, senior campaigns director at the Center for Media Justice, previously told me, "These apps are not the definitive guides to crime in a neighborhood — it is merely a reflection of people's own bias, which criminalizes people of color, the unhoused, and other marginalized communities.
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Lawmakers voted 20-12 in favor of the law, which criminalizes abortion if the physician has knowledge that the procedure is being sought due to a diagnosis of Down syndrome, a genetic disorder caused when abnormal cell division results in an extra full or partial copy of chromosome 21.
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In May, the group met with lawmakers in Albany to lobby for two bills: one that would repeal a state penal code that criminalizes "loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution," and another that would provide criminal record relief for those convicted of sex work-related crimes.
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David Bacon is the author of "Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration" (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006), "Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants" (Beacon Press, 19903), and "The Right to Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration" (Beacon Press, 2013).
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The city measure, passed in 2017, bans the selling of "services intended to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity" and is the subject of a lawsuit by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian organization that opposes abortion and LGBT rights and alleges the law criminalizes free speech.
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In September, the state of Texas passed a law that criminalizes the unsolicited sending of sexual photos via text, DM, AirDrop, email, social media, and dating apps — in large part due to the efforts of Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, who worked on the bill with Texas lawmakers for over a year.
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This week, legislators are introducing companion bills to guarantee access by repealing several decades-old measures, including a 44-year-old dormant law that criminalizes providers who perform abortions and a 1995 restriction that requires minors to appear before a judge to seek approval for the procedure if they don't have a guardian.
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"The harsh sentence imposed on Christensen creates a dangerous precedent, and effectively criminalizes the right to freedom of religion or belief for Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia – in contravention of the State's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement.
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The law criminalizes abortion even in cases of rape, incest, and fetal impairment, "perpetuating the suffering of survivors of sexual violence and of women and their partners already grappling with a devastating loss," Amnesty International wrote in its "She is Not a Criminal" report, which looked at the impact of Ireland's laws.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Canada Jordan Peterson, the Toronto professor who became infamous earlier this fall for his fiery remarks on political correctness and gender identity, found himself at the center of a long-anticipated debate Saturday morning around Bill C-16—legislation which, in his eyes, criminalizes free speech.
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Now, for the first time, the Supreme Court is determining what the words "encourage" and "induce" mean in the context of this 1986 law, and whether the ambiguous nature of those two words would constitute an interpretation so broad that it criminalizes or discourages legal political speech the First Amendment is otherwise designed to protect.
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Her lawyers are arguing that Utah's lewdness statute, which criminalizes exposure of "the female breast below the top of the areola" when a child is present in a private place "under circumstances the person should know will likely cause affront or alarm," is unconstitutional because it bans women from showing their chests but not men.
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The announcement by Lynneice Washington, the district attorney for part of Jefferson County, is seen as a victory for Jones and for reproductive health rights, especially in Alabama, where a strict new abortion ban potentially criminalizes women and where there's increasing support for "fetal personhood" giving equal or greater rights to fetuses over pregnant women.
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This bill comes after a similar proposal was rejected in South Dakota — and more like it are popping up in states across the USWhile transgender advocates and medical professionals alike have spoken out against legislation that criminalizes treatments for transgender youth like HB 465, it is among a number of bills that have been proposed at the state level.
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The goal of Tuesday's lobbying day was to generate broad support for two pieces of legislation: The first bill, which is still in committee, would repeal a state penal code that criminalizes "loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution" and that advocates say targets trans women and women of color—whether or not they're sex workers.
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And while there may indeed be a penalty (disciplinary, in this case) for a lawyer taping an unwitting client and, under certain circumstances, non-clients as well, there is no penalty for a non-lawyer who tapes another person, either on the phone or in person, except in a state (such as Maryland) that criminalizes it.
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" Mr. Netanyahu, who wished the wounded soldiers a speedy recovery from Munich, where he was attending a security conference, also responded angrily to remarks by the prime minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, after he stirred new controversy in defending a Polish law that criminalizes references to Nazi killing sites during the Holocaust as "Polish death camps.
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"The statute potentially criminalizes the simple words — spoken to a son, a wife, a parent, a friend, a neighbor, a co-worker, a student, a client — 'I encourage you to stay here,'" Judge A. Wallace Tashima wrote last year for a unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, in striking down the law.
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In her letter, Warren pointed to the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which makes it illegal for a person on U.S. soil to conspire to murder, kidnap or maim someone abroad, if doing so would be illegal in the U.S. The statute also criminalizes a conspiracy to murder, mutilate or maim individuals who are not active participants in hostilities.
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While President Barack Obama set deportation priorities by making a distinction between undocumented immigrants with serious criminal convictions and everyone else, Trump's executive orders vastly expand the criminal category — so much so that it essentially criminalizes anyone in the country who is without status and makes the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States a top priority for deportation.
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The debate over how to receive immigrants in a country that both depends on their labor and criminalizes them as intruders has emerged as the signature flash point of the Trump administration, which has swept a growing number of undocumented immigrants like Mr. Geh into detention at places like Otay Mesa and vowed to secure the border against future illegal crossings.
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As argued by former high-ranking Justice Department official Mary McCord, the Material Support to Terrorists statute — 18 U.S.C. § 2339 — criminalizes the act of "conceal[ing] or disguis[ing] the nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources, knowing or intending that they are to be used in preparation for or in carrying out" any of the applicable terrorism offenses in U.S. criminal code.
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Facebook justified its actions with an erroneous interpretation of the 1996 law that criminalizes material support to terrorist groups, contending that any posts arguing that it was unwise to assassinate Soleimani could be construed as material support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (which the Trump administration, in a gross misuse of a law that never was intended to apply to government entities, had designated as a foreign terrorist organization).
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While acknowledging in his memo that he was "in the dark about many facts," Mr. Barr argued that the Justice Department must not accept the notion that a president can violate a statute that criminalizes obstruction of justice when he is exercising his constitutional authority in an otherwise lawful way — such as by firing a subordinate, pardoning someone or using his "complete authority to start or stop a law enforcement proceeding" — but with a corrupt motive.
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"In the face of the court's finding these kind of tactics unconstitutional, the NYPD continues to apply them, and it's just one more way that the city criminalizes poverty, and one more way the NYPD thwarts the laws on the books and violates people's rights," said Robert Gangi, Director of the Police Reform Organizing Project, an organization that "works to expose and correct abusive police tactics that routinely and disproportionately do harm to our city's low-income communities and people of color," according to its website.
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But in June, New York state legislators failed to pass three major pieces of legislation for sex worker protections before the end of the legislative session: one that would have repealed a section of the state penal code that currently criminalizes "loitering for the purposes of engaging in prostitution"; a second that would have provided criminal record relief for people convicted of sex work-related offenses; and a full decriminalization package, which included these measures as part of its larger proposal to alter nearly a dozen state laws.
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