The CINAT is deeply concerned by the recent reports of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment inflicted on Iraqi detainees by US and UK military forces serving under the Coalition Provisional Authority.
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s impartiality in an appeal before the Supreme Court by Vice President Dick Cheney is questioned as the judge and the Vice President took a 3-day hunting trip together.
The ICJ and its United States National Section, the American Association for the ICJ, have submitted a joint amicus curiae brief to the United States Court in the case of Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah, et al., and Shafiq Rasul, et al., v. United states, et al. and George W. Bush, et al.
In a letter addressed to G. W. Bush today, the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers expressed its alarm at a recent directive by Attorney General John Ashcroft to federal prosecutors to report judges who depart from U.S. sentencing guidelines to the Justice Dpt.
Tunisia: Cease judges’ arbitrary prosecution and detention
ICJ communication to the International Court of Justice urging the investigation of the Court’s Vice-President
Semenya v. Switzerland: joint communication on the execution of the ECHR judgment
Libya: ICJ urges UN Human Rights Council to address deteriorating human rights situation at upcoming Universal Periodic Review