ICJ welcomes ruling in Anwar appeal
The ICJ welcomed Malaysia’s highest court ruling overturning former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy conviction and sentence of nine years imprisonment and setting him free.
The ICJ welcomed Malaysia’s highest court ruling overturning former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy conviction and sentence of nine years imprisonment and setting him free.
This memorandum on the survey on the Rule of Law is based on discussions and observations received from groups of lawyers in a number of countries who have already undertaken to prepare replies to the survey.
The opportunity has also been taken to explain more fully some of the thoughts underlying the survey.
India-memorandum survey-web story-2004 (full text in English, PDF)
The ICJ urged the Malaysian Federal Court to deliver its judgment expeditiously in the appeal of Anwar Ibrahim. The former deputy prime minister is in jail on politically motivated charges of corruption and sodomy.
The ICJ and other human rights groups urged Malaysia’s highest court to provide a fair hearing for the former deputy prime minister, in jail since 1998 on politically motivated charges of corruption and sodomy.
At the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the ICJ participated to the general debate on the question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world.