Letter on force-feeding and restraint of Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Dr. David Nicholl and others, The Lancet, March 9, 2006 [urged the US government to ensure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay are examined by independent physicians and that methods such...

The European Court of Human Rights based in Strasbourg announced Thursday that it has received an application from French Muslims asking it to declare the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad ...

US Defense Department officials said Thursday afternoon that reports originating from earlier statements by a military spokesman in Iraq that the US intended to close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison within three months...

An official of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has confirmed that Iraqi authorities executed 13 insurgents by hanging Thursday in Baghdad, the first official executions of insurgents carried out in the country since the restoration of the death penalty [JURIST...

Human Rights Record of the US in 2004, China State Council, March 8, 2006. Read the full report as reprinted in the Chinese government's People's Daily. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, March 8, 2006 . Read the full text of the reports. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006, US Congress, March 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

The US House Appropriations Committee late Wednesday voted 62-2 to amend an emergency appropriations bill for Iraq and Gulf Coast reconstruction with a provision blocking a controversial takeover of operations at six US ports [JURIST news...

USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, Congress of the United States, March 2, 2006 . Read the full text...

Prepared Remarks by US Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the International Institute for Strategic Studies London, England, March 7, 2006 . Read the full text...