Zimbabwe: judicial rulings must be respected
In a further blow to the independence of the judiciary, the Zimbabwean Government ignored two judicial rulings and used State-controlled media to attack magistrates, the ICJ said today.
Disappearance of human rights lawyer
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers urged today the Thai Government to conduct an urgent investigation into the disappearance of a well-known human rights lawyer.
Fiscal enfrenta remoción por cumplir funciones
En una carta dirigida al Presidente de Colombia, el Centro para la Independencia de Jueces y Abogados solicitó al Gobierno que garantice un procedimiento de remoción justo y la integridad personal del Fiscal Orlando Pacheco.
Urgent call for ICJ world-wide intervention : Human Rights Lawyer barred from leaving his country
The ICJ requests its entire network to call on their respective Governments to intervene with the Government of Syria to allow Mr. Haythem al-Maleh, a Syrian lawyer and human rights activist, to leave the country.
Sudan: arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention of human rights lawyer
The ICJ called on the Sudanese authorities to put an end to the incommunicado detention of Mr. Salih Mahmoud Osman and to either charge him with an offence or immediately release him.
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