Hearings on lawyer Muhamed Mugraby are flawed
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (CIJL) today condemned as manifestly unfair the 15 October appellate hearings on the case of human rights lawyer Dr. Muhamed Mugraby.
Lebanon: disciplinary proceedings against lawyers must be stopped
In a letter addressed today to the President of Lebanon, the ICJ requested that the Government stop all disciplinary proceedings against two lawyers who represented a well-known human rights lawyer.
ICJ deplores the massacre in Lebanon
The ICJ urges the Lebanese government to take all adequate steps to ensure that the perpetrators of the Sunday massacre be brought to justice.
At least 10 worshippers were killed and over 60 others wounded, many of them children and women, during mass, when two bombs ripped through the Sayyidet el Najat (Our Lady of Salvation) church in Jounieh, northern Beirut.
The ICJ deplores this infamous massacre which may jeopardise the country’s recent return to peace after years of civil war.
Jurists say Israeli raids on South Lebanon violate international law
The ICJ said today that the on-going Israeli raids on the South of Lebanon contravene the principles of international law.
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