The ICJ today once again called on the Thai Government to ensure a full and effective investigation into the enforced disappearance of Somchai Neelapaijit in March 2004 and to bring those responsible to justice.
The ICJ today urged the Government of Cambodia to immediately drop criminal defamation charges brought against three human rights defenders arrested over the last two weeks.
The 2005 Justice Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation has been awarded to a distinguished Malaysian lawyer: Param Cumaraswamy.
The ICJ today began observing the trial of five police officers accused of robbing prominent Muslim lawyer, Somchai Neelapaijit, on the night of his enforced disappearance in March 2004.
The ICJ welcomed Malaysia’s highest court ruling overturning former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy conviction and sentence of nine years imprisonment and setting him free.
The ICJ urged the Malaysian Federal Court to deliver its judgment expeditiously in the appeal of Anwar Ibrahim. The former deputy prime minister is in jail on politically motivated charges of corruption and sodomy.
India: Joint statement urging Indian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender and student activist Umar Khalid
HRC60: Statement by the International Commission of Jurists in the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
HRC60: International Commission of Jurists in the General Debate under Item 2
Serbia: Political leaders must cease interference with the judiciary