Italy: ICJ presents intervention at House of Representatives on security bills
The ICJ intervention focuses on aspects of the Security Bill and the Law Decree which give rise to particular human rights concerns.
ICJ intervention in Centrum for Rättvisa v. Sweden
The ICJ supports Centrum för Rattvisa (CfR) in its complaint against The Kingdom of Sweden about legislation monitoring and potential interception of all electronic communication passing Sweden’s borders.
Sweden-surveillance legislation-legal submission-2009 (full text, PDF)
Italy: government moves in the Eluana Englaro case to undermine the judiciary and separation of powers
The ICJ today denounced moves taken by Silvio Berlusconi to defy the decisions of the Court of Cassation to allow interruption of the artificial means of life-support to Eluana Englaro.
Italy-Government moves in the Eluana Englaro Case-press release-2009-eng (full text, PDF)
Italy-Government moves in the Eluana Englaro Case-press release-2009-ita (full text, PDF)
Governments must not impede courts’ disclosure of torture allegations
The UK government and the new US administration must ensure that the independence of the courts, and their ability to disclose information essential to accountability for crimes of torture, is not undermined.
The main threat is the withdrawal of intelligence co-operation, the ICJ said in response to yesterday’s Divisional Court judgment in R (Binyam Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
UK-US-Governments must not impede courts’ disclosure of torture allegations-web story-2009 (full text, PDF)
Sweden: ICJ submission to the Human Rights Committee
The ICJ provides its views to the Human Rights Committee for the consideration of the 6th Periodic Report of Sweden.
In this submission, the ICJ highlights several issues which it considers should be of particular concern to the Committee in its consideration of the Swedish report.
Sweden-ICJ submission Human Rights Committee-non-légal submission-2009 (full text, PDF)
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