"Witness A," the first woman to testify in the Saddam Hussein trial , gave her testimony Tuesday behind a curtain and with her voice distorted by computer to protect her identity, despite some technical problems which caused a short delay. Witness A continued to describe how she was forced to strip while in prison custody, [...]

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials in Mississippi knew that their response system had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and warned headquarters of riots, according to an eight-page document of e-mails released Monday by the US House Government Reform Committee . The correspondence between former FEMA Mississippi top responder, William Carwile and FEMA regional response [...]

CIA-owned or operated planes made over 210 "ghost flights" through nearly 20 different British airports that may have been used to transport terror detainees being relocated as part of the US practice of extraordinary rendition, according to the UK Guardian newspaper Tuesday. The Guardian notes that there is no evidence showing that any detainees were [...]

A district court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for Yukos lawyer Pavel Ivlev on charges of embezzlement, tax evasion and money laundering. Ivlev, a New York-based lawyer for the firm ALM Feldmans , worked for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and claims the arrest warrant is a response to his refusal to testify [...]

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that the French government has begun the deportation of seven foreigners found guilty of taking part in last month's rioting , making good his promise to deport any non-French citizen involved in the violence. Of the 83 foreigners arrested by police during the riots, 40 are prevented from [...]

State of Texas v. John Dominick Colyandro et al., Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Certain Motions of the Defendants to Quash the Indictments, Travis County District Court, Senior District Judge Pat Priest, December 5, 2005 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Terrorism Bill and related matters, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights, December 5, 2005 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Remarks on rendition upon departure for Europe, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, December 5, 2005 . Excerpt: Renditions take terrorists out of action, and save lives. In conducting such renditions, it is the policy of the United States, and I presume of any other democracies who use this procedure, to comply with its laws [...]

Torture by Proxy: International law applicable to 'Extraordinary Renditions', UK All Party Group on Extraordinary Rendition, December 2005 . Excerpt from the Foreward by Andrew Tyrie MP: This paper shows that there is a real and clear legal imperative to find out what is going on, and to ensure that no state engages in Extraordinary [...]

An Article 32 hearing will begin next Monday for a US Army captain to determine if he should face a court martial on charges that he poorly supervised military police officers guarding suspected terrorists at the US-run Bagram detention center in Afghanistan . Army investigators say that Capt. Christopher Beiring failed to properly train the [...]