The ICJ has urged the government of Malaysia to bring to trial or release the 91 persons now detained under the Internal Security Act.
Under the Act persons can be detained without charge or trial for indefinite renewable 60 day periods.
The ICJ visited Singapore to investigate and report on the detentions under the Internal Security Act of a total of 22 men and women accused of participating in a ‘Marxist conspiracy’ to overthrow the Singapore government.
The document contains the provisional programme of the Conference, information for Conference participants, Standing Orders, Conference Officers, participants and observers.
dynamic aspects rule of law-programme-1965-eng (full text in English and French, PDF)
Working papers are available at:
dynamic aspects rule of law-working paper congress-1965-fra (full text in French, PDF)
The report is available at:
dynamic aspects rule of law-conference report-1965-eng (full text in English, PDF)
dynamic aspects rule of law-conference report-1965-fra (full text in French, PDF)
dynamic aspects rule of law-conference report-1965-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
The newly-appointed Secretary-General of the ICJ, Sir Leslie Munro, will be visiting Karachi in mid-January in connection with a three-month mission to the Far East.
The ICJ, with the support of 39,000 jurists, judges and professors of law in 62 countries throughout the world, wishes to make known the texts of two cables sent on January 28 and February 14, 1961 directly to the Minister of Justice of South Vietnam, Nguyen Luong.
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