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)
In a report released today on the trial of a Malaysian human rights lawyer representing the family of a youth who died in police custody, the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers finds that the aim of the prosecution was to intimidate and harass him in his work as a lawyer.
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 23 May 2003.
The ICJ found that there were serious deficiencies throughout the trial.
Turkey-report re-trial Zana-May-trial observer report-2003 (full text, PDF)
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.
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