The ICJ says that the formal lifting of the state of emergency in Pakistan will have little meaning unless all constitutional rights and freedoms are restored and the legal and physical attacks on the judiciary reversed.
Pakistan-Lift State Emergency-Press releases-2007 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ today expressed deep concern at further assaults on the rule of law by the Government of Pakistan.
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The ICJ today condemned the suspension of the constitution in Pakistan, the summary dismissal of the Chief Justice (photo) and the arrest of leading lawyers, and expressed grave concern at this dismantling of the rule of law.
The ICJ said today that courts and investigatory bodies set up specially by the Sudanese Government to address human rights violations in Darfur have failed to deliver justice to victims in Darfur.
The ICJ today called on the Government of Myanmar to allow the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Myanmar (photo) full and unhindered access to the country.
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