The Pentagon wants to cut in half the number of detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay by tranferring many prisoners out of the country to facilities in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to a report published in Friday's New York Times. According to unidentified officials, the plan, first laid out by Secretary of Defense [...]

Skeptics on and off Capitol Hill Thursday assailed a new report on military interrogation practices authored by US Navy chief of staff and former Inspector General Admiral Albert T. Church that effectively concluded that the Pentagon's civilian and military leadership was not to blame for abuses of prisoners by US personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]

A proposed anti-terror law pitted the UK House of Lords and House of Commons against each other in a ferocious debate Thursday night and Friday morning as amended and re-amended versions of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill bounced between the two chambers and Prime Minister Tony Blair and his ministers fought to push their policy [...]

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, passed by the US Senate, March 10, 2005 . Read the full text of the bill as reported in the Senate. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Executive summary of a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church on DOD interrogation operations, March 10, 2005 , US Department of Defense, March 10, 2005. Read the executive summary . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Canada honored four slain RCMP officers Thursday afternoon in a nationally-televised memorial service attended by Prime Minister Paul Martin, Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson representing the Queen, and 10,000 police officers from Canada, the United States and around the world. Waves of Mounties in their red serge ceremonial uniforms marched through the streets of Edmonton to a [...]

The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin et al. v. The Dow Chemical Company et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge Jack B. Weinstien, March 10, 2005 . Review the full memorandum opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, Indictment, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, released March 10, 2005 . Read the full text of the indictment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Senate has passed a credit card-company backed bankruptcy bill that will make it harder for many Americans to clear their debts. The vote on passage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 was 74-25 .

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, including the Optional Protocal concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes before the International Court of Justice, United Nations, 1963 . Read the full text of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Optional Protocols. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.