Jose Padilla v. C.T. Hanft, Supreme Court of the United States, December 10, 2005 . Read the full text of the brief . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, passed by the US House of Representatives, December 16, 2005 . Read the full text of the legislation . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, the outgoing head of a UN committee investigating the February 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , said Saturday that he is convinced Syrian authorities are responsible for Hariri's death. This was the first time that Mehlis unequivocally accused Syria of the assassination since the formal UN probe [...]

An anti-bribery panel for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) urged governments on Friday to dig deeper into evidence of kickbacks and corruption reported by an independent UN commission investigating the UN's now-defunct Iraq oil-for-food program . Only 11 of the 40 countries whose citizens have been implicated by the inquiry have requested [...]

Britain ran a secret prison at Bad Nenndorf in northwest Germany that tortured and starved to death inmates for two years after the end of World War II, according to a Saturday report from the Guardian. Inmates included Nazi party members, former members of the SS, suspected spies, and successful businessmen who had done well [...]

Iraqi authorities began to ease tight election security measures Saturday by lifting the ban on traffic and opening all borders except for the border with Syria, which will reopen in a few days. Thursday's election drew as many as 11 million people to the polls, or 70 percent of Iraq's population. International observers have praised [...]

In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Bush acknowledged that he has approved secret eavesdropping in the US and said that he has no intention of putting an end to National Security Agency monitoring of possibly thousands of international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of US residents without warrants. Calling the program "crucial to [...]

The appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Friday stayed a trial chamber decision that would have allowed former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to return to political life in Kosovo pending his scheduled trial in 2007 . The stay will be in effect until the appeals chamber issues its [...]

The US House of Representatives late Friday evening narrowly approved a tough new border security and immigration bill that includes plans to build a security fence across 621 miles of the Mexican border and authorizes the US Department of Homeland Security to study the possibility of placing barriers across the famously "undefended" US border with [...]

New York-based human rights Human Rights Watch warned Friday that the McCain Amendment prohibiting the cruel and inhumane treatment of US-held detainees that was finally endorsed Thursday by a reluctant Bush administration could yet be undercut by another amendment included in the same defense spending bill that would limit the recourse of Guantanamo detainees to [...]