The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and Lawyers without Frontiers have published a report on their observations of the hearings in the trial of the Bar Association.
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers issued a report on Tunisia in which it concluded that the Government of Tunisia violates national and international standards on the independence of the judiciary.
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers today concluded in its final report on the criminal trial of 27 Turkish lawyers that this trial was political in nature.
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers expresses in its second report its deep concern at the on-going trial of 27 Turkish lawyers who are charged with professional misconduct related to their defense of political prisoners.
This preliminary report reflects the concerns of the ICJ based on its trial observation of the first hearing of 27 lawyers (hereafter “Ankara 27”) charged with professional misconduct on 9 May 2002 before No.1 Ankara Heavy Penal Court.
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