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For Chiapas Indigenous, Justice Gets Lost Without Translation

In Chiapas, 42% of indigenous people who were arrested did not receive the assistance of an interpreter in any part of their legal proceedings. Today, they serve their sentences without understanding what was said during their trials.

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Big Tobacco Loses Plain Packaging Case in Australia

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, HERALD SUN, THE AUSTRALIAN, (Australia), BBC (UK) Worldcrunch Australia’s High Court of Justice has upheld a new government law on mandatory packaging for cigarettes that remove brand colors and logos from packaging, reports the BBC. The new law mandates that cigarettes be sold in drab olive-green packs and ban all commercial logos. […]

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