The ICJ’s Center for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers expressed its distress todayat the criminal, civil and disciplinary proceedings against Ms. Gulguna Kaisarova, a respected member of the Kyrgyz Bar.
In an intervention addressed today to the Israeli Government, the ICJ’s Center for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers condemned the arbitrary arrest and on-going detention of Daoud al-Dir’awi, a Palestinian lawyer.
In a report released today on another phase of the re-trial of Leyla Zana and three other defendants, the ICJ condemned the manifestly unfair proceedings.
The ICJ’s Centre of the Independence of Judges and Lawyers monitored the re-trial of former Kurdish MP’s Leyla Zana and her co-defendants. The hearing took place at Ankara State Security Court on 20 June 2003.
The ICJ found that there were serious deficiencies throughout the trial.
Turkey-report re-trial Zana-June-trial observer report-2003 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ’s Center for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers wrote today to the Government of Sudan to express its alarm at the arrest and incommunicado detention of two lawyers by the National Security Agency.
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