The US Senate on Wednesday approved a defense policy bill banning the cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees in US custody but also limiting the ability of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to challenge their...

An Act to amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of that Act and the lone wolf provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to July 1, 2006, passed by the...

American Civil Liberties Union v. Mercer County Kentucky, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, December 20, 2005 [upholding a lower-court decision allowing Mercer County to continue displaying the Ten Commandments along with the Declaration of Independence, the...

Wire services are reporting that after intensive negotiations lasting several days US senators late Wednesday agreed to extend the Patriot Act for six months. The White House and the Senate Republican leadership had previously...

Courts in Uzbekistan Wednesday convicted an additional 42 people and handed down prison sentences of 12-20 years in connection with the May 2005 Andijan uprising . It was reported that the defendants were convicted on...

Jose Padilla v. C.T. Hanft, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, December 21, 2005 [denying the Bush administration's request to transfer Jose Padilla from military to civilian law enforcement custody, and also denying the government's request that...

AP is reporting that the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has denied the Bush administration's request to transfer Jose Padilla from military to civilian law enforcement custody. Padilla, a US citizen,...

The International Federation for Human Rights and the League of Human Rights have filed a lawsuit in French court seeking more information about whether the US Central Intelligence Agency operated prisoner rendition ...

An attorney for John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, said Tuesday that Lindh has again asked President Bush to commute his 20-year prison sentence . Lindh was sentenced...

AP is reporting that the US Senate has rejected a proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. The proposal was included as part of the 2006 military spending bill [bill...