Documents regarding autopsies on deceased US-held detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, released to the public by the ACLU on October 24, 2005 pursuant to a FOIA request . Read the full text of the reports. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Egyptian police Tuesday clashed with relatives of political prisoners demonstrating outside the country's Interior Ministry. The protesters called for the immediate release of the detainees, mostly Islamists and suspected members of the Gamaa Islamiya and Jihad organizations, who were imprisoned after leading a violent campaign against the regime in the 1980s and 1990s. Egyptian human [...]

A Guantanamo detainee on hunger strike has asked for a motion ordering his feeding tube to be removed so that he can starve to death, his lawyers said Tuesday. Kuwaiti Fawzi al-Odah , 28, has been imprisoned without charges at Guantanamo Bay since his arrest in Pakistan in 2002. He has been force-fed through a [...]

A group of former international political leaders supporting the defense of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein called Tuesday for a UN investigation into last week's kidnapping and murder of Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi , a lawyer representing one of Hussein's co-defendants. In a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella, [...]

US Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NB) introduced a package of four bills on US immigration policy Tuesday that depart from Bush administration policy. Hagel, a possible contender for the Republican nomination in the US 2008 presidential election , proposed legislation that would allow many of the 8 to 12 million illegal immigrants currently living in the [...]

Britain's House of Lords on Tuesday substantially amended the Blair government's controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill . The bill outlawing incitement to religious hatred was originally proposed last year , and Prime Minister Tony Blair began pushing again for its adoption after the July bombings in London. Critics of the proposed legislation, including comedians [...]

In Tuesday's environmental law news, Judge Katherine Hayden of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled Monday that the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway could continue to operate five waste transfer stations in North Bergen NJ until at least the end of the year. The New Jeresy Department of Environmental [...]

A senior UN official said Tuesday that reported election results from the October 15 referendum ratifying the Iraqi constitution are correct. Carina Perelli, director of the UN Electoral Assistance Division , called the results "accurate" and defended the standards and controls used in the election and the subsequent audit of votes. Just days after the [...]

Former Rwandan president Pasteur Bizimungu has asked that country's high court to overturn his 15-year criminal sentence for inciting violence, embezzlement, and associating with criminals. On appeal, Bizimungu argues he was tried on charges different from those for which he was originally arrested and that his prosecution is politically motivated. First sentenced in June 2004, [...]

A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Tuesday warned that corporate directors may face US government regulation of executive pay unless they control soaring salaries and payoffs. Judge William Chandler , who ruled in August that Disney’s directors acted properly in paying $140 million to former president Michael Ovitz when he resigned in 1996, delivered a [...]