Hurricane Katrina investigation report, US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, April 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the report and additional documentation. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

By the Numbers: Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project, New York University Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, April 26, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , an association that promotes freedom of speech, faces up to 15 years in jail on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by posting essays on the Internet in favor of a movement entitled the "Velvet Action of China," according [...]

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that he is considering proposing legislation that would suspend funding for the NSA domestic surveillance program if the Bush administration continues "walking all over Congress." Specter said that he is unsatisfied with the answers on the program that administration officials [...]

American-educated Saudi and alleged al Qaeda suspect Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi denied before a pre-trial military commission hearing at Guantanamo Bay Thursday that he was guilty of war crimes , but said he was "willing to pay the price" – possibly decades in jail – for admittedly fighting against the United States. Sharbi asked to [...]

Several US states, cities, and environmental groups led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Thursday against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit claiming the EPA has violated the federal Clean Air Act by failing to regulate carbon dioxide pollution from new [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 4-3 Thursday that it is constitutional for a judge to require a convicted sex offender to turn over DNA samples to the Canadian National DNA Data Bank , even if the offender was convicted before the enactment of the 2000 law establishing the bank. The Court's decision reversed a [...]

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Thursday rejected a motion to dismiss criminal charges against former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in connection with the leak of former CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. Libby had asked that the case be dismissed because Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was improperly appointed to head the CIA [...]

Over one-third of documents held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that have been removed from public access since 1999 should not have been reclassified, according to an audit conducted by NARA's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) . ISOO head J. William Leonard and National Archivist Allen Weinstein said that over 25,000 records [...]

China has not overlooked human rights abuses in its quest to find energy sources for its growing economy, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Qin Gang said China emphasized peace, cooperation and development and that trade with China actually helps improve conditions in struggling countries. Anti-poverty and human rights activists have accused China [...]