The ICJ released today its Trial Observation Report on proceedings before the Colombo High Court in the prosecution of J.S. Tissainayagam, a Tamil journalist.
On 31 August 2009, Mr Tissainayagam was convicted under anti-terrorism laws and sentenced by Judge Deepali Wijesundara to 20 years “rigorous imprisonment.”
SriLanka-journalist-news-2009 (full text, PDF)
МКЮ приветствует возможность представить свои комментарии Универсальному периодическому обзору (УПО) Казахстана.
В этом представлении МКЮ хотела бы обратить внимание Рабочей группы на вопросы независимости судебных органов, ограничений права на справедливое судебное разбирательство, включая право на защиту со стороны выбранного адвоката и неоправданных препятствий для адвокатов при осуществлении их профессиональных функций; а также к недостатком в правовой и практической защите от пыток и других жестоких, бесчеловечных или унижающих достоинства видов обращения.
Kazakhstan-UPR-non-legal submission-2009 (полный документ на английском, PDF)
In this review, the ICJ addresses the breaches or risks of breaches of Italy’s human rights obligations.
These are resulting from:
Italy-ICJ submission UPR-non-legal submission-2009 (full text in English, PDF)
The ICJ today expressed its concern about the criminal prosecution of Magistrate Baltasar Garzón for his investigation into crimes against humanity committed during and after the Spanish Civil War.
Judge Garzón is being prosecuted before the Second Chamber (Criminal) of the Spanish Supreme Court for intentionally issuing an unjust judgment or ruling (the offence of prevaricación).
Spain-Garzón-press release-2009-eng (full text in English, PDF)
The ICJ addressed the persistent failure of Iran to meet many of its human rights obligations and the wave of fresh human rights violations in the country in the aftermath of the June 2009 disputed presidential election.
The ICJ urged Iran to refrain from torture and ill treatment, end violations of freedoms of expression and assembly, abolish the death penalty and co-operate with international human rights mechanisms, including the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the treaty bodies.
Iran-UPR-advocacy-2009 (full text, PDF)
The UN Human Rights Council makes significant but limited progress in addressing human rights around the world, as atrocities multiply in the Middle East and elsewhere
ICJ hosts an African Regional Convening in Kenya on Transformative Equality Jurisprudence
Russian Federation: Arbitrarily detained human rights lawyer Maria Bontsler must be released
ICJ Oral statement at HRC urgent debate on protection of children and schools in armed conflict