Ziad al-Khasawneh , the Jordanian head of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, claimed Monday that Iranian-backed Iraqi politicians are plotting to assassinate Hussein in prison. Al-Khasawneh based his claim on information received from a former Iraqi government official he identified as Hazem al-Obeidi, although the authenticity of the warning has not been otherwise verified. An [...]

A Danish intelligence officer, Reserve Capt. Annemette Hommel, and four military police sergeants pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of abuse of Iraqi prisoners . The military prosecutor, Benny Holm Frandsen, told a Copenhagen court that the soldiers were guilty of inhumane treatment of prisoners . Hommel, who could face up to one year in [...]

In an escalation of the controversy over judicial nominations, the conservative group Progress for America began running television advertisements in six states Monday at the outset of a $3.3 million dollar TV ad campaign that will go nationwide next week. The first two ads highlight Judge Janice Brown and Judge Priscilla Owen, blocked by Democrats [...]

Report on the death of Italian security agent Nicola Calipari and the wounding of two others in Baghdad in the wake of the release of Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena on March 4, 2005, Italian investigative commission, released May 2, 2005 . Read the full text of the report in Italian. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase [...]

Florida HB 1877, the Jessica Lunsford Act, signed into law by Florida Governor Jeb Bush on May 2, 2005 . Review the full text of the bill . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Charge sheet for Pfc. Lynndie England, revised February 11, 2005 . Pages 1, 2, 3 via FindLaw. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here and here.

Opening address to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, May 2, 2005 . Excerpt: The plain fact is that the regime has not kept pace with the march of technology and globalization, and developments of many kinds in recent years have placed it under great stress. International regimes do not fail [...]

A report released late Monday by Italian officials on the circumstances of the March 4 shooting of Italian agent Nicola Calipari after an Iraq hostage rescue has challenged a report on the same incident produced by US military investigators. While the US report cleared US soldiers of any wrongdoing in Calipari's shooting at a US [...]

Former UK Chief of the Defense Staff Admiral Sir Michael Boyce told the Observer newspaper in an interview published Monday that he was never shown the full legal advice from British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith expressing reservations about the legality of invading Iraq, and insisted that if as a result of the inadequate legal cover [...]

A landmark bill which would have allowed Kuwaiti women to vote and stand in municipal elections failed Monday in the Kuwaiti Parliament . Twenty-nine deputies voted in favor of the bill and 2 voted against it, but of the 60 deputies, 29 abstained from the vote so that the required quorum was not met. The [...]