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...

Prosecutors in Yemen Wednesday called for the death penalty against the editor of a Yemen newspaper who republished cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad originally printed in a Danish newspaper in September. Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested [JURIST...

The UN Security Council will take up the issue of Iran's nuclear program after Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency , transmitted his official report on Iran's nuclear program to...

The jury in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial heard testimony Wednesday that, during a visit to Malaysia in 1999, a man matching Moussaoui's description told Islamic militant Fauzi bin Abu Bakar Bafana that he...

Britain's chief inspector of prisons has expressed concern after Muslim inmates in London's maximum-security Belmarsh Prison - dubbed "the UK's Guantanamo Bay" by the British press - told authorities that the staff did not understand...

The US State Department on Wednesday named North Korea, Burma and Iran among the world's biggest human rights offenders in its 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices , saying that "countries...

The chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay denied Tuesday that detainees at the facility were tortured, but acknowledged the vagueness of the definition of torture itself. USAF Col. Morris Davis...

Serbian officials have criticized prison officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for failing to prevent the suicide of Milan Babic , former wartime leader of Croatia's...

The US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will vote in April on legislation to improve port security at American ports, according to committee chair Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) . Collins hopes...