Terrorism Bill, text as introduced in the UK Parliament October 12, 2005 . Read the full text of the bill . Reported...

The Rest of Their Lives, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, October 12, 2005 . Read the full text of the report ....

2005 Annual Report, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, October 11, 2005 [concluding that China has made no significant progress in human rights or law reform over the past year and has increased government restrictions on Chinese citizens who worship in state-controlled...

The British government introduced a tough new anti-terror bill in the House of Commons Wednesday, bringing forward measures anticipated since soon after the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 commuters. Among...

US officials outlined procedures for the upcoming trial of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in a special background briefing at the State Department Tuesday. The officials, speaking "on background" because the trial is an Iraqi process...

Human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Wednesday called on US federal and state lawmakers to change mandatory sentencing schemes under which thousands of juvenile prisoners face the prospect of life sentences without parole. A new joint...

In his first media briefing, incoming UK lord chief justice Lord Phillips has warned the British government to back off pressuring the judiciary to enforce its own views of the law in terror-related or other cases. Speaking...

Lawyers for Republican members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that President Bush's nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court was uniformly unpopular among committee staffers, and that some questioning...

New York Times reporter Judith Miller is set Wednesday to go back for a second round of testimony before a federal grand jury probing the 2003 leak of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame [JURIST...

Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the independence of judges and lawyers, August 31, 2005, released October 10, 2005 [assailing the independence of the Iraqi Special Tribunal and saying that US and UK anti-terror...