States must fully investigate complicity in secret detentions and renditions
The ICJ today called on all states to end involvement in these systematic human rights violations perpetrated under the guise of countering terrorism. (more…)
Region and country Archives: Romania
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, E/CN.4/2000/3, 25 January 2000
J. Violations of the right to life of members of sexual minorities 54. The Special Rapporteur has continued to receive serious reports of persons having been subjected to death threats or extrajudicially killed because of their sexual orientation. It has been reported that on 4 August 1998 in Brazil, four military police officers in the […]
Concluding Observations, CCPR/C/79/Add.111, 27 July 1999: Romania
16. The Committee is concerned about restrictions on the right to privacy, in particular in regard to homosexual relations between consenting adults, which are penalized by article 200, paragraph 1, of the Penal Code (art. 17). The State party should take timely action to ensure that this provision is amended so as to conform with […]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, E/CN.4/1995/34, 12 January 1995: Romania
Information received from the Government on cases included in previous reports 614. Finally, in the case of Marcel Brosca, who was allegedly severely beaten by police in Teduci, the Iasi military prosecutor’s office concluded that no violence had been exerted against him. He was convicted of robbery and homosexual activity and sentenced to five years’ […]
International Commission of Jurists appeals for an end to disturbances in Romania
Mr. Niall MacDermot, the Secretary-General of the ICJ has issued the following press statement today. (more…)
ICJ Review no. 41 (December 1988)
The purpose of the Review is to focus attention on the problems in regard to which lawyers can make their contribution to society in their respective areas of influence and to provide them with the necessary information and data. (more…)