No exception to the prohibition of torture
The ICJ is deeply shocked at the admission by an MI5 expert that the British intelligence service would use information extracted from tortured persons as evidence in court.
Re-trial of Leyla Zana and her co-defendants is grossly unfair
In a report released today on another phase of the re-trial of Leyla Zana and three other defendants, the ICJ condemned the manifestly unfair proceedings.
Les avocats tunisiens bâillonnés par la décision d’une justice aux ordres
La Cour d’Appel de Tunis a fait droit à la demande de six avocats membres du parti au pouvoir, de faire réformer un appel du Conseil de l’Ordre National des Avocats de Tunisie à la grève générale dans tous les Tribunaux le jeudi 7 février 2002.
L’indépendance de la justice tunisienne en danger
La Commission internationale de Juristes et Avocats sans-frontières Belgique expriment leur entier soutien au Conseil de l’ordre des avocats tunisiens.
ICJ report condemns charges against lawyer
A report by the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers finds that the aim of the prosecution against a human rights Malaysian lawyer was to intimidate and harass him in his work.
Italy : ICJ shocked at Berlusconi’s attacks on the judiciary
The ICJ today expressed its shock at the vicious attacks by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on the Italian judiciary, calling magistrates a “cancer that must be cured”.
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