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 here.

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 has told House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner to prepare for an unusual round of "field hearings" beginning in August to [...]

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of Louisiana's new law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. US District Judge James Brady of the Middle District of Louisiana in Baton Rouge granted a temporary restraining order requested by two industry groups, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Entertainment Merchants Association [...]

Prisoners across Nepal are demanding general amnesty following the release of more than 1,000 Maoist rebels , many of whom had been detained under a royal government anti-terrorism law effectively scrapped last week by the new parliamentary government in a gesture of reconciliation. Although most of the protests have been peaceful, inmates took over Kathmandu's [...]

The prosecutor-general of East Timor has issued an arrest warrant for former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato, accused of giving weapons to a rebel group that targeted opponents of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri . The United Nations Office in East Timor said in a statement that Lobato is suspected of supplying guns to the hit squad's [...]

The Barbados government on Tuesday asked the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to overturn a legal precedent that blocks capital punishment in an effort to impose the death penalty on two convicted murderers. Jeffrey Joseph and Lennox Boyd were both sentenced to death by hanging for the 1999 murder of a 22-year old woman, but [...]

South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk and five colleagues went on trial Tuesday, with prosecutors calling for harsh punishment and defense lawyers responding that criminal penalties are inappropriate for academic fraud. Prosecutors charged Hwang in May in the Seoul District Court with fraud, embezzlement and violating bioethics laws for his claims that he had produced [...]

A federal judge has ordered the Los Angeles County jail system to create an expert panel to oversee reform at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail , one of seven LA country jails that was marred by racially-motivated riots by inmates earlier this year. US District Judge Dean Pregerson toured Men's Central in May, prompting [...]

David Safavian , former head of procurement for the US government, was convicted Tuesday of four of five felony charges stemming from the scandal surrounding former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff . After five days of deliberations, a federal jury in Washington, DC, found Safavian guilty of obstructing an investigation by the General Services Administration , [...]

Two UK law enforcement associations denounced parts of the pending Police and Justice Bill on Tuesday and called on the House of Lords to amend it. In a press release , the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Association of Police Authorities said it would shift power to the Home Secretary, allowing him to [...]