Param Cumaraswamy to receive Peter Gruber Award
The 2005 Justice Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation has been awarded to a distinguished Malaysian lawyer: Param Cumaraswamy.
Thailand : ICJ observes trial associated with disappearance of prominent Muslim lawyer
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.
ICJ welcomes ruling in Anwar appeal
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.
No more delays in Anwar appeal
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.
In final appeal, Anwar must get fair hearing
The ICJ and other human rights groups urged Malaysia’s highest court to provide a fair hearing for the former deputy prime minister, in jail since 1998 on politically motivated charges of corruption and sodomy.
Disappearance of human rights lawyer
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers urged today the Thai Government to conduct an urgent investigation into the disappearance of a well-known human rights lawyer.
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