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Veteran Wins Major Civil Rights Verdict Over LAPD Psychiatric Detention
A Los Angeles jury awarded $6.8 million to Army veteran Slade Douglas, after finding police unlawfully seized him and forced him into an unconstitutional mental health hold—based on a false report.
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Largest Ever Anti-Trafficking Operation Rescues More Than 4,400
INTERPOL’s Operation Liberterra III mobilized 14,000 officers in a sweep across brothels, factories and private homes in 119 countries and territories—rescuing thousands and exposing networks that trade weapons alongside human beings.
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Investigation Exposes How a False Media Narrative Cost a Religion Its Legal Status in Japan
New research uncovers how media hysteria and falsehoods led to the denial of religious rights for hundreds of thousands of believers across Japan.
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Australia’s Religious Freedom Debate Splinters as Victoria Inquiry Draws Fire
While a federal royal commission probes rising antisemitism, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into “cults” is being condemned by faith leaders for stigmatizing religions and fueling bigotry.
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How Japan’s Courts Turned a Mother’s Faith into a Crime
A case thrown out by two lower courts was resurrected under a new legal standard that strips minority believers of basic rights.
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Operation Relentless Justice Nets 293 Child Predators While Key Enabler Walks Free
A nationwide FBI operation targets child sexual exploitation, yet the man who defended the world’s largest sex trafficking site escapes accountability.
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Georgia Election Board Settles Transparency Lawsuit, Agrees to End Private Email Use
Transparency advocates score a win as Georgia’s election board settles a public records case, mandating official accounts for all communications and ensuring open access under state law.
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UK Watchdog Cracks Down on Public Authorities for FOIA Failures
Decades-old promises of accountability falter as citizens, journalists and families are left waiting for answers, forcing legal action by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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Outrage Erupts Over Quebec Bill 9 as Government Targets Public Prayer and Religious Expression
As the bill heads for a vote in the new year, communities across Quebec warn it would push religion out of public life and criminalize simple acts of religious devotion.
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Senior UN Official Arielle Silverstein Is a Secret Bigot and Public Relations Catastrophe on Human Rights Day
On December 10, the UN will celebrate dignity and non-discrimination. So why is Arielle Silverstein—an ethics insider who mocks believers, cheers on cyber-harassment and openly urges the targeting of minority faiths—still wearing a UN badge?
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Man Who Exploited Minors in South Korea’s Biggest Cybersex Blackmail Ring Sentenced to Life
Seoul court calls the predator’s crimes cruel and the damages irreparable after hundreds were coerced into sexual exploitation through encrypted online chats.
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New Mexico Watchdog Sues State Police to Force Release of Delayed Public Records
The lawsuit exposes repeated legal loopholes used by the Department of Public Safety, highlighting systemic resistance to transparency and accountability.
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Unreported Casualties
We see the staggering numbers, and yet somehow they don’t shock us nearly as much as they should.
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Baltimore’s Dilemma
There was nothing about Freddie Gray that was considered particularly remarkable before his life was cut woefully short at 25 this past spring…
