Third Report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to the UN Security Council Pursuant to UNSCR 1593 (2005), Luis Moreno Ocampo, June 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

American Friends Service Committee, et al v. US Department of Defense . Read the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Jones v. Ministry of Interior Al-Mamlaka Al-Arabiya AS Saudiya (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and others, UK House of Lords, June 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Luis Moreno Ocampo , chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court , told the UN Security Council Wednesday that his investigation into crimes against humanity in Darfur has documented thousands of killings of civilians, large scale massacres, and hundreds of rapes that he anticipates will result in multiple cases rather than a single proceeding . [...]

Secretary General's supplementary report under Article 52 ECHR on the question of secret detention and transport of detainees suspected of terrorist acts, notably by or at the instigation of foreign agencies, Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, June 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's [...]

The US House Budget Committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would give the president a line-item veto over individual provisions in spending bills. The Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006 is weaker than the 1996 line-item veto legislation that the US Supreme Court struck down as violating the constitutional separation of powers. The current bill, [...]

Partners in crime: Europe's role in US renditions, Amnesty International, June 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the report Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Council of Europe (COE) Secretary General Terry Davis concluded in a new report published Wednesday that many European governments do not have adequate administrative, judicial, or parliamentary control mechanisms to ensure that their airspace and aircraft are not being used for illegal rendition programs. As part of an ongoing Council probe into alleged CIA rendition [...]

Three independent UN experts in the areas of judicial independence and freedom of expression expressed "grave concern" for "recent attacks against the judiciary of Egypt," and for detaining protesters who rallied in support of several reform-oriented judges. Specifically, the experts condemned a disciplinary panel decision to reprimand pro-reform judge Hisham Bastawisi for "exercising his right [...]

The Serbian Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld 40-year prison sentences for four former members of a special police unit that took orders from then-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to kill ex-Serb President Ivan Stambolic in August 2000. Belgrade's special court convicted eight men of the assassination last year , sentencing them each to 4 to 40 [...]