Log of (and links to) Army CID reports of investigations into US treatment of prisoners in Iraq, US Department of Defense, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, March 4, 2005 . Read the full text of the reports here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A bill that would make consumers satisfy a series of requirements before being permitted to cancel their debts through bankruptcy is close to passage in the US Senate. On Tuesday the Senate killed what some Republicans called a "poisoned pill" – a proposed Democratic amendment that would have prohibited anti-abortion protestors and other engaged in [...]

Initial reactions by Senators on both sides of the aisle prompted speculation Tuesday that Monday's nomination of Under-Secretary of State John Bolton to be the new US ambassador to the UN could be problematic, or at least controversial. Senior Democrats such as Senator Joseph Biden and former Democratic presidential challenger Senator John Kerry expressed "surprise" [...]

The US has indicated in a Supreme Court filing that it has asked the state of Texas to rehear the cases of 51 Mexicans whose death sentences were recently deemed improper by the International Court of Justice as the accused had been denied access to help from their consulates as guaranteed by the 1963 Vienna [...]

Senior Shiite political leaders said Tuesday that the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity should get under way before any vote is taken on a new permanent constitution for Iraq. Muwafaq al-Rubaie, a national security advisor to the outgoing government of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and a member of [...]

New York Deputy Attorney General Dietrich Snell, former senior counsel to the now-defunct 9/11 Commission, testified as anticipated Tuesday before a German court retrying the case of Mounir el Motassadeq , a Moroccan accused of being an accomplice in the 9/11 attacks. Motassadeq was convicted in 2003 of being an accessory to more than 3000 [...]

In a split 84-34 vote that is being claimed as a symbolic victory for the Bush administration, the UN General Assembly Tuesday urged governments to enact a total ban on human cloning , including the cloning of embryos for stem cell research. The US had worked with anti-abortion groups to support the proposal, which also [...]

While acknowledging that the March 4 incident was "accidental", Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini Tuesday disputed Washington's version of the events that led to the shooting death of an Italian intelligence officer and the wounding of a freed Iralian journalist by US soldiers at a coalition checkpoint. Fini demanded a full US investigation into the [...]

Explanation of the draft Anti-Secession Law, Wang Zhaoguo, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), Tuesday, March 8, 2005. Excerpt: Using non-peaceful means to stop secession in defense of our sovereignty and territorial integrity would be our last resort when all our efforts for a peaceful reunification should prove futile. [...]

UK Registrar-General Len Cook Tuesday dismissed 11 legal objections to the proposed civil marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles that had been filed in their home towns of Chippenham and Cirencester. The Registrar-General is responsible for the application of the Marriage Act 1949 and hears all objections to marriage ceremonies proposed under the [...]