Samuel A. Alito to the US Solicitor General, Memo re: Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians, US Department of Justice, May 30, 1985 . Read the full text of the memo from the National Archives. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

List of "Ghost Prisoners" Possibly in CIA Custody, Human Rights Watch, November 30, 2005 . Review the full list. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday released a list of 26 "ghost detainees" , terror suspects that HRW alleges the US has not reported but is holding incommunicado and is possibly torturing. Many of the people on the list are suspected of involvement in past terror attacks, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the alleged Sept. [...]

Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday bowed to pressure from back-benchers and agreed to several amendments to proposed anti-terror legislation that will soften several of its provisions. After a day of meetings with members of the Liberal Party, Attorney General Philip Ruddock reportedly agreed to most of the changes recommended by a Senate report [...]

Prosecutor v. Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala, Isak Musliu et al., International Criminal Tribunal for ths Former Yugoslavia, November 30, 2005 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday delayed a US attempt to bring Myanmar before the council over what the US described as a deteriorating political and human rights situation. US Ambassador John Bolton sought to bring the issue before the council, but members said discussion was put off based on a request by China, with [...]

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday said that the country's constitution should be amended to allow the country to increase its military for national security purposes. Koizumi said that the country could not defend itself without an armed military force trained for war. Japan currently only maintains a 240,000-strong Self-Defense Force because Article 9 [...]

Human Rights and Responsibilities in the Age of Terror, Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia, Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture, University of Melbourne, November 29, 2005 . Read the full text of the lecture . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US Lieutenant-General Martin Dempsey said Wednesday that he thought Iraqi commanders were responsible for recent cases of detainee torture by Iraqi security forces. Dempsey, who oversees the US program to train security forces in Iraq , said he believed the recent cases of abuse were caused by a lack of leadership, rather than by individual [...]

The Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey on Wednesday overturned the life sentence of Metin Kaplan , an Islamist cleric convicted on charges of plotting to fly an aircraft into the mausoleum of Turkey’s secular founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, on a national day of celebration in 1998. The court ordered a retrial because of deficiencies [...]