Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle , the Texas prosecutor in the criminal case against US Rep. Tom DeLay , has said that DeLay's resignation from Congress will not affect the case. DeLay currently faces money laundering charges and a request to have criminal conspiracy charges against DeLay reinstated is pending before the Texas Third [...]

Saddam Hussein on Wednesday defended his signing of a 1984 execution order as prosecutors began their cross examination of the former dictator before the Iraqi High Criminal Court at the resumption of his trial . Hussein insisted that he approved the death sentences of 148 Shiites who had participated in an assassination attempt based upon [...]

Nepal's royal government has made its anti-terrorism law more stringent by introducing a fifth amendment to the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Control and Punishment) Ordinance (TADO), published in the official gazette on Monday. National and international human rights organizations are concerned that independent media and even parties fighting for democracy in this country hard hit [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, one of the lead attorneys on the Center for Constitutional Rights challenge to the NSA domestic surveillance program, says that the Electronic Frontier Foundation's recent suit for damages against telecommunications giant AT&T for its role in facilitating the program has suggestive parallels in two landmark eighteenth century English cases [...]

Final results of inquest into the death of Slobodan Milosevic, The Hague District Public Prosecutor's Office, April 5, 2006 . Excerpt: The public prosecutor's department in The Hague has closed the investigation into the death of Mr. Milosevic. The public prosecutor has come to the conclusion that Mr. Milosevic died a natural death and that [...]

USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis, Congressional Research Service, March 24, 2006. Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Below the Radar: Secret Flights to Torture and 'Disappearance', Amnesty International, April 5, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Entertainment Software Association v. Granholm, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, Judge George Caram Steeh, March 31, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Central Intelligence Agency hid its rendition of terrorism suspects to various foreign countries by using private air carriers and "front" companies, according to a new report released by Amnesty International late Tuesday. According to "Below the Radar: Secret Flights to Torture and 'Disappearance,'" the CIA has transported suspects to various CIA and military [...]

A US military judge presiding over one of the military commission proceedings that resumed at Guantanamo Bay Tuesday appeared unsure of exactly what body of law would be applied in the case against Abdul Zahir , one of ten detainees who have been charged with war crimes. When asked by Zahir's military counsel, judge Col. [...]