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.
Indonesia: Anti-Terror Law Cannot Be Applied Retroactively
The Indonesian Constitutional Court ruled on 23 July that an anti-terror law cannot be applied retroactively to convict a suspected accomplice of the 2002 Bali bombing. The judges relied on the Indonesian Constitution that guarantees “the right not to be tried...
India: memorandum on the survey on the rule of law
This memorandum on the survey on the Rule of Law is based on discussions and observations received from groups of lawyers in a number of countries who have already undertaken to prepare replies to the survey.
The opportunity has also been taken to explain more fully some of the thoughts underlying the survey.
India-memorandum survey-web story-2004 (full text in English, PDF)
Japan-Act on Special Cases in Handling Gender for People with Gender Identity Disorder (2004)
Japan-Act on Special Cases in Handling Gender for People with Gender Identity Disorder-2004-eng Japan-Act on Special Cases in Handling Gender for People with Gender Identity Disorder-2004-ja
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