[JURIST] According to British Foreign & Commonwealth Office documents obtained and published Saturday by the Guardian newspaper, Martin Mubanga, one of four muslim Britons still held at Guantanamo Bay, made new allegations of torture and humiliation endured by him and other detainees during a recent "welfare visit" from an FCO official. Mubanga, 31, claimed that he was recently shackled so long that he wet himself and then was forced to clean his own urine. He also alleged that he was threatened, abused, and subjected to extreme temperatures. Further allegations of mistreatment appeared in a letter [PDF] from Moazzam Begg, one of five Britons released from Guantánamo last March. In response, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said that they had raised the claims with US authorities, who investigated them and found them to be "without merit." The Guardian has more

[JURIST] Denise K. Woo, a 45 year old former FBI agent, has been indicted on five criminal counts for tipping-off a suspect under investigation and lying to other FBI agents. Woo's indictment revealed that the FBI was conducting a national security probe on a Chinese-American man suspected of collecting information as an employee of a defense contractor and subsequently passing it to the Chinese government. Woo's attorney, Mark Holscher, stated Friday that "Denise Woo was forced to assist in an espionage investigation of an innocent man, and the FBI unfortunately has sought to criminalize her efforts to prevent a terrible tragedy." In a similar case earlier this year, another member of the FBI Chinese counterintelligence unit was indicted for allowing sensitive documents to come into the possession of an alleged Chinese double agent. AP has more.

[JURIST] US military officials said Saturday that a US soldier has been sentenced to three years in prison for killing a severely wounded Iraqi. As previously reported in JURIST's Paper Chase, Staff Sgt. Johnny M. Horne Jr., 30, of Winston-Salem, N.C., had pleaded guilty on Friday to unpremeditated murder of the Iraqi teen August 18 during fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City. Horne also received a reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of wages, and a dishonorable discahrge. AP has more.

[JURIST] The White House said late Friday evening that former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has withdrawn his nomination as homeland security secretary. Kerik said in a statement that "In the course of completing documents required for Senate confirmation, I uncovered information that now leads me to question the immigration status of a person who had been in my employ as a housekeeper and nanny". The full text of Kerik's statement is here. President Bush had announced Kerik's nomination only last week. Kerik had also been criticized in the press for profiting from his work with companies he would have contracted with as head of the Department of Homeland Security. Current Secretary Tom Ridge has said he will remain in the position until a successor is appointed. Bloomberg has more.