The ICJ today called on the Chinese government to permit the Tibetan people to demonstrate peacefully and called for an international investigation into serious allegations of human rights violations.
The ICJ today called on the Government of Myanmar to allow the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Myanmar (photo) full and unhindered access to the country.
The ICJ sets out its views on the human rights compatibility of offences of incitement to acts of terrorism, and on the appropriate limits of such offences in European Union law and in the national laws of European states.
In its Response to the European Commission Consultation on Inciting, Aiding or Abetting Terrorist Offences, submitted on 15 February 2007, the ICJ concludes that incitement to acts of terrorism should be a criminal offence only where there is a subjective intention to incite acts of terrorism, and where the speech concerned causes the commission of an act of terrorism or an imminent risk of such an act. There is a risk that broadly-worded offences of apologie, encouragement, justification or glorification of terrorism will lead to violations of the right to freedom of expression and of the principle of legality, and will have a chilling effect in inhibiting constructive debate, in particular in minority communities. The full submission is attached below.
Europe-EC Consultation Terrorist Offences-non-judicial-submission-2007 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ calls for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the charge against human rights lawyer Dr Mugraby and to abandon trial proceedings against him, scheduled for 20 March 2006.
The ICJ today urged the Government of Cambodia to immediately drop criminal defamation charges brought against three human rights defenders arrested over the last two weeks.
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