Five lawyers in incommunicado detention
Five Sudanese lawyers who have been arbitrarily arrested and detained must be either charged or released, said the Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the ICJ.
Judiciary compromised by executive interference and corruption
A return to the old practice of exerting insidious political influence over the judiciary, compounded by ill-considered legislation, threatens to undermine the gains of Moldova’s legal and judicial reform process.
Legal memorandum: Argentinas’s Full Stop and Due Obedience laws
The ICJ and Amnesty International have repeatedly expressed their concern about the incompatibility of Argentina’s Full Stop Law, Law No. 23,492 of 12 December 1986, and Due Obedience Law, Law No. 23,521 of 4 June 1987, with international law.
Argentina: military jurisdiction and domestic legislation
Under pressure from the Armed Forces, the “Full Stop” Law (“Ley de Punto Final”) was passed. Later, following the military uprising by the so-called “carapintadas” (“painted faces”), the “Due Obedience” Law (“Ley de Obediencia Debida”) was also passed.
Urgent call for ICJ world-wide intervention : arbitrary arrest and detention of Nepalese lawyers
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers urged the organization’s network to appeal to the Government of Nepal to immediately release seven lawyers currently in detention or to bring charges against them.
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