Captured on Tape: Interrogation and Videotaping of Detainees in Guantanamo, Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research, February 14, 2008 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Protests broke out in the Gaza Strip, Pakistan, and Denmark Friday over the reprinting of a cartoon depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste . Thousands marched and chanted in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the Gaza strip, while hundreds protested in Pakistan by burning Danish flags and demanding the removal [...]

US President George W. Bush Friday chided the US House of Representatives for failing to pass the FISA Amendments Act before leaving for a 12-day recess, saying that the US would be in greater danger of an attack when the temporary Protect America Act expires on Saturday. The US Senate voted 68-29 Tuesday to pass [...]

Thousands of interrogations of suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been videotaped, according to a report released Thursday by professors and students at Seton Hall University School of Law . The report cites internal US military reports that say that more than 24,000 interrogations took place at Guantanamo over a three-year period and [...]

Australian Aborigine groups said Friday they are preparing lawsuits in response to an offical apology delivered Wednesday by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in an address to Parliament, publicly accepting responsibility for the historical mistreatment of Aboriginal people under the "laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments." Between 30 and 40 lawsuits will be [...]

The Russian Supreme Court Friday rejected for the second time an appeal by former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to reinstate his candidacy in the Russian presidential election to be held next month. The court previously rejected an appeal by Kasyanov last week after a one-day hearing. In January, the Russian Central Election Commission disqualified Kasyanov [...]

US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred has ruled that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan can send written questions to Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other alleged high-level al Qaeda detainees. Hamdan's lawyers hope that the interviewed detainees will testify that Hamdan was not involved with the USS Cole or 9/11 attacks and [...]

East Timor's attorney general said Friday that 12 arrest warrants have been issued for suspects in this week's attacks against East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao , but did not release the names of the suspects. Attorney General Longuinhos Monteiro also said that five additional warrants will be issued. Horta [...]

Any unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo from Serbia will be "invalid and void," Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said Thursday, hours before the UN Security Council was scheduled to discuss the possibility of Kosovar secession. Kosovo, the UN protectorate now dominated by ethnic Albanians which is still technically a part of Serbia, is [...]

US President George W. Bush said in a BBC interview Thursday that he will veto an intelligence funding bill that would restrict CIA interrogators to using only interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by the 2006 Army Field Manual. Bush said that: The reason I'm vetoing the bill – first of all, we have said that whatever [...]