Investigation into the Gumbad incident, executive summary, US Central Command . Released November 26, 2005. Read the full text of the executive summary from US Central Command. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US military officials announced Saturday that four American soldiers will not face criminal charges for burning the bodies of two Taliban rebels in Afghanistan , though they will be subject to disciplinary action. The US Department of Defense began an investigation into the alleged desecration of the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters last month [...]

The head of the Council of Europe investigation into possible secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe said Friday that the existence of large detention centers for US terror detainees in the region was unlikely. In a statement before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council, Europe's human rights watchdog body, Swiss Senator Dick Marty indicated that [...]

Hundreds of supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood complained of unwarranted arrests Saturday during the runoff for the second round of Egyptian parliamentary elections , alleging that at least 270 were detained outside of polling stations in Alexandria, the Nile Delta and Qena. The Muslim Brotherhood has been outlawed for more than 50 years in [...]

Syria agreed Friday to allow UN investigators to question five unidentified Syrian officials at the Vienna UN offices in connection with the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . The agreement has pleased chief UN investigator Detlev Mehlis, who was on the verge of giving up on Syrian cooperation . Deputy Foreign [...]

The scope of the US Department of Justice probe into the dealings of former high-powered Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff may implicate more public officials than previously anticipated, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Prosecutors indicted Abramoff in August on charges of bank fraud, and he remains the center of an investigation into [...]

The office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced Friday that it does not expect to pursue state criminal charges against Maurice "Hank" Greenberg , former AIG chairman and CEO. Spitzer originally filed suit against AIG, Greenberg and its former CFO in May, alleging that the defendants engaged in fraudulent transactions to prop up [...]

Projet de loi relatif à la lutte contre le terrorisme et portant dispositions diverses relatives à la sécurité et aux contrôles frontaliers . Read the full text of the draft law . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The ailing former senior Iraqi intelligence officer who in late October became the first witness to testify in the trial of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has died, the chief prosecutor of the case before the Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) said Friday. Waddah al-Sheikh had been suffering from cancer [...]

Russian President Valdimir Putin has said he will consider amendments to a bill overwhelmingly approved by the lower house of the Russian parliament Wednesday that would greatly increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by requiring them to register with a state commission and imposing financial oversight on their operations. He told an NGO representative [...]