No exception to the prohibition of torture
The ICJ is deeply shocked at the admission by an MI5 expert that the British intelligence service would use information extracted from tortured persons as evidence in court.
Criminal, civil and disciplinary proceedings against Kyrgyz lawyer
The ICJ’s Center for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers expressed its distress todayat the criminal, civil and disciplinary proceedings against Ms. Gulguna Kaisarova, a respected member of the Kyrgyz Bar.
Re-trial of Leyla Zana and her co-defendants is grossly unfair
In a report released today on another phase of the re-trial of Leyla Zana and three other defendants, the ICJ condemned the manifestly unfair proceedings.
Report of the re-trial of Leyla Zana and three other Kurdish former parliamentarians (Part 2)
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)
Italy : ICJ shocked at Berlusconi’s attacks on the judiciary
The ICJ today expressed its shock at the vicious attacks by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on the Italian judiciary, calling magistrates a “cancer that must be cured”.
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