Apr 1, 1980
This issue of the CIJL Bulletin contains case reports on Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, Czechoslovakia, France, Pakistan, South Africa, Taiwan, Colombia and Guatemala.
- Activities of lawyers’ associations:
- Court of State Security in Syria
- The Union of Arab Lawyers
- The Formation of an Inter-African Bar Association
- Resolution of Congress of Buenos Aires Lawyers
- Article: The Prosecution in French Criminal Procedure, by Manfred Simon
CIJL Bulletin-5-1980-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Feb 1, 1980
The ICJ thematic report on the human rights records in Uruguay. The reports focuses mainly on political prisoners.
There is every indication that there is a regime which continues to practice repeated and systematic violations of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Internally, any action for the respect of fundamental rights, as well as any resistance to the regime, is virtually impossible given the scope and extent of military repression.
The report contains information on:
- Torture and ill-treatments of political prisoners
- Conditions of detentions or imprisonment
- Present number of political prisoners
- Liberation of prisoners
- Military justice
- “Forced disappearance” of opponents
- Institutional situation – state of emergency
- Dismissal of civil servants
- Freedom of expression – the press
- Union rights
- Political rights- elections
- The exile
- Economic situation
- Military control
Uruguay- human rights political prisoner-report-1980-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Jan 1, 1980
On March 6, 1980 the government of the Republic of Costa Rica formally submitted to the UN Commission on Human Rights the Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture which is published in this pamphlet.
