Recently-released US military tribunal hearing records and other documents indicate at that least seven prisoners at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were transferred abroad to jurisdictions practicing torture before their arrival at the base, with three detainees claiming they were actually tortured in those jurisdictions, according to Wednesday's Boston Globe. The inmates who [...]

Proposed resolution for the European Parliament based on the interim report of the parliamentary commission on alleged CIA use of European countries for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners , April 26, 2006 . Read the full text of the proposed resolution . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The trial of six former high-ranking Bosnian Croat officials began Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . The defendants, including the former prime minister of the Croat region of Herceg-Bosna Jadranko Prlic, face multiple crimes against humanity charges , including murder, rape and deportation for allegedly organizing an ethnic cleansing campaign [...]

The US Central Intelligence Agency has used extraordinary rendition to kidnap terror suspects in Europe and transfer them to countries known to use torture and has operated over 1,000 secret flights in European territory, according to an interim report drafted by Italian MEP Giovanni Claudio Fava and released Wednesday. Fava, rapporteur for a special committee [...]

US District Judge Donald Molloy has issued an injunction striking down three US Forest Service regulations that would have limited the public's ability to comment on proposed rules. The injunction came in response to plaintiff and defendant motions for summary judgment and follows an order issued last month which declared the regulations invalid under the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ordered US District Judge Leonie Brinkema to hold hearings on whether the National Security Agency used warrantless domestic wiretaps to gather evidence against an Islamic scholar convicted of encouraging Muslims to join the Taliban. Ali al-Timimi is serving a life sentence following his conviction last [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down decisions in two cases, including Jones v. Flowers , 04-1477, where the Court held that before a state can sell property for failure of the property owner to pay taxes, the state must take additional "reasonable" steps to provide notice to the property owner when "practicable" to [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, members of Thailand's Supreme Court have agreed to a request by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej that they take an active role in resolving the country's ongoing election crisis . The king is mainly a figurehead for the nation and told judges Tuesday that he lacked the power to appoint a neutral [...]

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday that Australia will not implement a compulsory national identity card when he rolled out plans for a voluntary and comprehensive health and welfare card that will replace the nearly 20 other cards currently provided. Howard, who opposed a 1987 plan for an Australia Card , said last summer [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that although reparations for African-American slavery remain an elusive goal due largely to misconceptions about what they might entail, meaningful reparations could in practice come in different forms in different contexts… The reparations movement is grounded in the civil rights [...]