The trial of Professor Enrique Tierno Galvan, a prominent Catholic leader of the Spanish academic community, and 9 other co-accused commences on March 9 before the Special Court of Illegal Propaganda in Madrid.
The ICJ announced today that it has delegated Mr. Raymond Nicolet, the well-known Geneva attorney, to observe on its behalf the judicial proceedings at Yassa-Ada, Turkey.
Documentary evidence of the systematic violation of legal rights in the Soviet Zone of Germany from 1954 to 1958.
This edition is an extract of the document collection “Unrecht als System”, part III. The document collection “Injustice The Regime” reveals the causes of this stream of refugees constantly flowing to the West. It makes it clear, especially to jurists, what almost unimaginable consequences result from the abuse of law as a means for the achievement of political aims.
Statements made by administrative offices, courts, and leading personalities in the Soviet Zone are reproduced herein to deliver an objective report on the judicial and administrative practice of the Soviet Zone, and to help the reader in gaining a true impression of a system of law, whose representatives assiduously ignore the violations of law and arbitrary actions committed in the name of ‘socialist justice’. which their so eagerly propagate.
East Germany-rights soviet occupation-report-1959-eng (full text in English, PDF)
East Germany-rights soviet occupation-report-1959-fra (full text in French, PDF)
The administrative authorities have not the right to make laws by virtue of their own competence. The legislative function actually belongs to the two Chambers (Art. 70 of the Constitution).
A statement by the German national section of the International Commission of Jurists, published by the ICJ.
The statement consists of answers to a series of questions. The questions were posed by the ICJ and answered on behalf of the German section by ten of its prominent members.
The questions cover the following themes:
Germany-rule of law-non-legal submission-1958-eng (full text in English, PDF)
More than fifty years on: enforced disappearance, the families who named it, and the reframing of international protection
Türkiye: Osman Kavala must be immediately released following European Court order to quash his conviction
Sudan: ICJ joins call to extend UN Fact-Finding Mission and strengthen accountability
ICJ hosts Johannesburg roundtable on the draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty with the Malala Fund and other civil society actors