Penal Code (1861)
The Penal Code of Myanmar dates from the period of British rule. It contains 23 Chapters and 511 Articles. The Chapters cover the following: Introduction General Explanations Punishments General Exceptions Abetment Offences against the State Offences relating to the...
Appointment of Sir Leslie Munro as new Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists
Effective July 1st, 1961, Sir Leslie Munro, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., will succeed Dr. Jean-Flavien Lalive as Secretary-General of the ICJ.
Observer at the trial of Adolf Eichmann
The ICJ has requested Dr. Pierre A. Papadatos, attorney at the Court of Appeal of Athens, to act as its observer at the trial of Adolf Eichmann which is to begin in Jerusalem on April 11, 1961.
Trial observer sent to Addis Ababa
The ICJ has been informed by the Ethiopian Minister of Justice that an open trial of those charged with complicity in the abortive coup of December, 1960, was to begin on Monday, February 27, 1961, in Addis Ababa.
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