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 [...]

Thirty-three additional people received jail sentences in Uzbekistan Monday for their role in the May 2005 Andijan uprising after being found guilty of murder, terrorist acts and mass riots. Uzbekistan's Supreme Court said two separate trials were held for the 33 individuals resulting in sentences ranging from 12-17 years. The latest jail terms bring the [...]

French President Jacques Chirac offered apologies Monday to 13 people who were wrongly convicted of pedophilia and spent 16-39 months in jail. Chirac called the convictions a "judicial disaster without precedent" and said he would personally see that a thorough investigation is conducted and charges brought against the appropriate people. Six of the convictions were [...]

Liberia's president-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , soon to becomethe first female president of an African state, vowed Monday that all rapists will be appropriately punished during her presidency according to a new law. The country's parliament passed legislation Thursday making individual rapes illegal for the first time in Liberia . Rapists can be sentenced to between [...]

The Texas judge presiding over the trial of Rep. Tom DeLay has thrown out conspiracy charges against the former GOP House Majority Leader but has refused to dismiss money laundering charges . AP has more. ALSO ON JURIST  Op-ed: Tom DeLay's Challenge to Texas Grand Jury Process

The United Nations envoy to Cambodia has reported that human rights violations in the nation are widespread, and called for greater UN involvement to help persuade the government to comply with UN standards . Yash Ghai was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in November to review the status of human rights violations in Cambodia. [...]

UN investigators began questioning five Syrian officials in Damascus Monday as part of their ongoing investigation of the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik al-Hariri . Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to the questioning in late November , with the hope that it would correct numerous alleged errors in the UN probe that led to [...]

In an address to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Monday, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox called for "more streamlined" national accounting rules that are crafted to promote competition rather "than hinder it". Many argue that the accounting rules implementing by the commission following the 2001 Enron collapse and subsequent corporate fraud [...]