The UK proposes strict criteria for giving their former Afghan employees asylum: a "high and imminent risk” of threat to their life.

The city of Chicago will pay 5 million dollars compensation to Anjanette Young your handcuffing her nude after breaking into her apartment with guns drawn.

They raided her apartment by mistake, but even when they have a valid reason to search someone's apartment, they should not treat per like dirt. Not everyone suspected is guilty, and even culpable criminals shouldn't be treated like that.

*Freelancer Soe Naing was arrested in Yangon [a week ago] while taking photos of a ‘silent strike’ protest against military rule.* He has died in jail.

Chances are he was tortured.

A mega-rainstorm may have cured California's drought, but it has done great damage too.

*Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states.*