Sentences with phrase «liberties advocates who»
Even so, the expiration of the authority at the end of this year will prompt a fight between security hawks who want to renew it, and civil liberties advocates who want to let it expire, or curtail it.
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Christen News Agency: Iranian pastor's Christmas arrest worries religious liberty advocates A Christian pastor who spent nearly three years in an Iranian prison for his religious conversion was reportedly arrested again on Christmas Day, contrary to a previous agreement.
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) regrets the ruling but «calls on evangelicals to be gracious and compassionate to those who do not share their views on marriage and to also advocate for liberty for all who desire to live out their faith.»
In the recent book, Civil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual «1
Two lesbians who were denied a double room at a hotel are starting a legal battle with the help of civil liberty advocates.
Public Advocate: We interviewed civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel and Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, who has since dropped out.
The revelations have drawn outrage from the Muslim community and civil liberties advocates, who say the surveillance has gone too far.
If they are going to criminalize policy differences and scientific opinions, perhaps it's time we start proposing to indict politicians who advocate trampling on constitutional rights and liberties to which we are all entitled.
Both the person who is deprived of liberty and their representative have a right to access an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate.
Last Remembrance Day, my posting was entitled «Lest We Forget,» which offered some profound words from poet / soldiers of WWI and WWII, including a moving passage from F.R. Scott, a Canadian lawyer who was an important civil liberties advocate and past Dean of McGill Law School.