Dutch investigators on Wednesday released their final report on their independent investigation into the death of Slobodan Milosevic , saying that the former Yugoslavian leader died of a heart attack on the morning that guards found him dead in his cell at The Hague . The report confirms earlier investigations concluding that Milosevic died of [...]

The international tribunal that is set to hear the case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor hit a wall on Tuesday as court administrators struggled to find a country willing to grant Taylor asylum if he is acquitted of 11 counts of war crimes allegedly committed during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war. Officials from the [...]

United Nations member states have begun announcing their candidacies for membership on the newly-formed Human Rights Council in preparations for elections scheduled May 9. The UN General Assembly approved the creation of the new rights body last month to replace the widely criticized Commission on Human Rights . According to the list of candidates available [...]

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.