Resolution 1688 (2006), UN Security Council, June 16, 2006 [authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor to be shifted from the facilities of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the facilities...

US Department of Defense documents released Friday chronicle multiple mistreatments of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel in 2003 and 2004 but stop short of labeling the instances of mistreatment illegal, describing them instead as "wrong." Over 1000 pages of...

Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush June 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

Hudson v. Mitchell, Supreme Court of the United States, June 15, 2006 . Read the Court's majority opinion ...

Turkmen v. Ashcroft, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge John Gleeson, June 14, 2006 . Read the...

Third Report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to the UN Security Council Pursuant to UNSCR 1593 (2005), Luis Moreno Ocampo, June 14, 2006 [reporting that the ICC investigation into crimes against humanity in Darfur has documented thousands...

Jones v. Ministry of Interior Al-Mamlaka Al-Arabiya AS Saudiya (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and others, UK House of Lords, June 14, 2006 [ruling that three British men and one Canadian man who claim to have been tortured in Saudi...

Secretary General's supplementary report under Article 52 ECHR on the question of secret detention and transport of detainees suspected of terrorist acts, notably by or at the instigation of foreign agencies, Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe,...

Partners in crime: Europe's role in US renditions, Amnesty International, June 14, 2006 [report accusing European states of being "partners in crime" with the United States in the alleged circuit of CIA rendition flights transporting terror suspects to third countries...

Government Response to Memorandum of Amicus Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the US House of Representatives on a Motion for Return of Property filed by Rep. William Jefferson, US Department of Justice, June 13, 2006 [arguing that House Councel's articulation...