Cuba and the United States exchanged barbs Tuesday over the US human rights record on the second day of the inaugural session of the UN Human Rights Council official website; JURIST news...
For the first time in 20 years, a former government official is on trial for crimes committed during the Dirty War in Argentina . The trial of Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz , former chief...
In an effort to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the suicide of three Guantanamo Bay detainees , the Center for Constitutional Rights filed an Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence in federal court...
A group of nurses filed four class-action lawsuits around the country Tuesday against multiple hospitals , alleging the hospitals violated antitrust laws by conspiring to keep wages low for nurses despite a national shortage...
A defense lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial was abducted and killed Wednesday, just two days after the prosecution presented their closing arguments in the trial, calling for the death penalty for Hussein and...
A Review of the FBI's Handling Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, released June 2006 [noting "numerous systemic problems" during the FBI's investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui prior to the...
CFC-A AO Detainee Operations: Report of Inspection, BG Charles H. Jacoby, June 25, 2004, declassified June 7, 2006 . Read the...
Article 15-6 Investigation of CJSOTF-AP and 5th SF Groups Detention Operations, BG Richard B. Formica, November 8, 2004; declassified June 7, 2006 [concluding that some Iraqi detainees were not being treated by US personnel in accordance "with the spirit of...
Documents regarding US treatment of detainees, US Department of Defense, released to the public by the ACLU on June 19, 2006 pursuant to a FOIA request. Read the full text of the documents. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here and...
Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives announced Tuesday that they would postpone final negotiations on immigration reform legislation until after hearings around the country in the coming months. House Speaker Dennis Hastert...