The ICJ condemns the United States for pressing states to sign bilateral agreements which would preclude them from transferring US nationals to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ICJ urges Syrian authorities to end the harassment of a prominent human rights lawyer, Haythem Al-Maleh, whose only crime was the lawful and proper representation of an individual engaged in political opposition to the current regime.
Today the ICJ sent an intervention to President Bashar al-Assad regarding the trial of a lawyer, Habib Issa, before the State Security Court.
The ICJ intervened with President Pervez Musharraf requesting that police inaction in the case of the gang-rape of a woman and her very young brother be investigated.
The ICJ today repeated its appeal to the Government of Tunisia to facilitate a mission to examine the independence of the judiciary and the functioning of the legal profession in that country.
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Egypt: New Criminal Procedure Code violates human rights
GUATEMALA: International organizations express concern over the detention of lawyer Ramón Cadena
Tanzania: African CSOs Call for the Non-Recognition of the Illegitimate Government and for Transitional Justice and Fresh Elections