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.
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”.
Former Kurdish MP’s denied the right to a fair trial
The ICJ condemns the grossly unfair proceedings in the re-trial of former Kurdish M.P.’s before the Ankara State Security Court on the charge of “membership in an armed gang.”
ICJ releases final report on the criminal trial of 27 Turkish lawyers
The ICJ today concluded in its final report that the criminal trial of 27 Turkish lawyers was political in nature.
27 lawyers charged with professional misconduct acquitted
The ICJ is satisfied by the decision of the No. 1 Ankara Heavy Penal Court on 31 October to acquit 27 lawyers who had been charged with professional misconduct under the Turkish Penal Law.
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