Cierre de la Corte Primera viola independencia del poder judicial
El Centro para la Independencia de Jueces y Abogados de la CIJ solicitó a las autoridades venezolanas competentes la reinstauración de los Jueces de la Corte Primera, quienes fueron destituídos sin respeto al debido proceso.
Yukos lawyer harassed
In a letter addressed to Putin, the ICJ urged the Russian Government to stop harassing Mr. Khodorkovskiy’s lawyer.
South Africa: arrest of magistrate must be investigated
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers urged South African President Thabo Mbeki to fully investigate the arrest and detention of the Chief Magistrate of the Groblersdal Magistrates’ Court.
Russia: lawyer’s arrest based on planted evidence – ICJ intervention
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers demands the Russian authorities to immediately release a lawyer arrested on 24 October after police planted a firearm in his car.
Joint declaration on the need for an international mechanism to monitor human rights and counter-terrorism
A group of international Non-Governmental Organizations has launched a Joint Declaration calling on the United Nations to monitor the impact on human rights of the fight against terrorism.
Practices such as torture, detention without judicial review, unfair trial, criminalisation of acts in exercise of fundamental rights, and suppression of the right to association have been sharply on the rise as a result of measures taken in the fight against terrorism.
The Declaration calls on the UN Commission on Human Rights at its 60th session in March/April 2004 to establish as a matter of utmost priority an independent mechanism on the question of human rights and counter-terrorism.
Joint declaration on the need for an international mechanism to monitor human rights and counter-terrorism [full text, PDF]
Lebanon: disciplinary proceedings against lawyers must be stopped
In a letter addressed today to the President of Lebanon, the ICJ requested that the Government stop all disciplinary proceedings against two lawyers who represented a well-known human rights lawyer.
