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JURIST Guest Columnist Brian Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the Senate compromise on the Graham Amendment limiting judicial review for Guantanamo detainees leaves the way open for grave mistakes and injustices that may further damage America's...

The Iraqi Islamic Party , one of Iraq's largest Sunni parties, on Wednesday demanded an international investigation into allegations that security forces illegally detained and tortured suspected insurgents at secret jails in Baghdad. Omar...

Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso announced Tuesday that the country would investigate allegations that US CIA planes carrying terrorism suspects made secret landings on Spanish soil before continuing to Libya, Algeria, Romania, Macedonia and Sweden....

European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs Franco Frattini said Monday that although the informal EU investigation into the alleged existence of secret US prisons in European Union nations has revealed...

The US Department of Justice is considering a request from the Central Intelligence Agency to open a criminal investigation into the leak of possibly classified information on the existence of secret CIA detention centers for suspected terrorists...

The European Commission said Thursday that it plans to investigate allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is using a Soviet-era compound in eastern Europe as part of a secret prison system to...

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser Wednesday voiced his strong opposition to new anti-terrorism proposals from current Prime Minister John Howard , which were leaked by an Australian state leader...

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...

In a letter written by Saddam Hussein to a Jordanian and delivered through the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross the former Iraqi president, facing trial this fall and possible execution, says that he will be...

Citing national security concerns, the US Justice Department has asked a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Canadian man who claims he was deported to Syria and tortured. Maher Arar , born in Syria...