May 7, 2025 | Advocacy, Events, News
In April 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and partners organized two online workshops for legal practitioners from six EU Member States who work with children in conflict with the law. These workshops follow up on the Transnational Exchange Roundtable held in March 2025 in Brussels and aim to explore specific issues in greater depth and strengthen legal assistance for children in conflict with the law.
May 6, 2025 | Advocacy, News
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemned today the arbitrary detention of prominent lawyer and former administrative judge Ahmed Souab, and called on the Tunisian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release and drop all criminal charges...
May 6, 2025 | Advocacy, News, Publications, Publications
In a briefing paper released today, the ICJ found that the military trials of 105 civilians for offences in relation to violence surrounding the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in May 2023 fall afoul of core rule of law and human rights principles. The 105...
Apr 30, 2025 | Advocacy, News
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi must not promulgate the new Criminal Procedures Code (CPC) adopted by the Egyptian Parliament, which, if enacted, would further undermine fair trial rights and facilitate the authorities’ ongoing crackdown against politicians, human...
Apr 25, 2025 | Advocacy, Legal submissions, News
On 25 April 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre (AIRE Centre) and the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) submitted a joint third-party intervention before the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the case of H.A.M. v. Denmark. The case concerns the expulsion on criminal grounds of a Somali individual with disabilities from Denmark, after over 30 years of asylum.
Apr 23, 2025 | Advocacy, News, Press Releases
The guilty verdicts and the shockingly harsh sentences, delivered on the night of 18 April 2025, after a sham trial of 37 defendants – an almost foregone conclusion to Tunisia’s so-called conspiracy case – are the culmination of a gross miscarriage of justice and...
