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US House of Representatives blocks Patriot Act’s provision on libraries records

Jun 8, 2005

In a review of part of the Patriot Act, the House of Representatives voted on 14 June to block a provision that allows the FBI to access records of libraries and bookstores. While this revision still requires Senate approval, the Justice Department defended the...

Venezuela requests the US to extradite a Cuban terror suspect

Jun 8, 2005

On 17 May US immigration authorities arrested Luis Posada Carriles for illegally entering the country. Venezuela requested Posada’s extradition as he escaped from a local jail while awaiting trial in 1985. Mr. Posada is accused of masterminding the blowing-up of a...

In re Jose Mauricio Lovo-Lara and Gia Teresa Lovo-Ciccone, Board of Immigration Appeals, United States (18 May 2005)

May 18, 2005

Procedural Posture The petitioner, an American citizen, appealed against the immigration agency’s denial of a visa petition for her husband on the basis of their marriage. Facts The petitioner, an American citizen, was a transgender woman who had legally changed her...

United States: Civil liberties lawyer found guilty of supporting terrorism

Apr 8, 2005

On 10 February, a jury in New York City found US lawyer Lynne Stewart guilty of defrauding the government, conspiracy, and providing support to terrorism. Stewart, a long-standing civil liberties attorney, represented Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who was sentenced for...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.1, March 30, 2005: United States of America

Mar 30, 2005

1868. Frederick Mason. The Government informed that in August 2000, he filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department and two officers, alleging that on 19 July 2000, he was sodomized and called racist and anti-gay names by the two officers. The Office of...