The ICJ condemns the decision of the Ankara State Security Court to find Leyla Zana and her co-defendants, all Kurdish former parliamentarians guilty of “membership in an armed gang.”
Summary: In light of Turkey’s candidacy for the European Union, Mr. Paul Richmond, Expert on Turkey and Barrister (England & Wales), analyses recent legislative reforms intended to strengthen democracy, the rule of law and the protection of human rights. He concludes that Turkey must take stronger measures to protect the independence of judges and lawyers.
In a further blow to the independence of the judiciary, the Zimbabwean Government ignored two judicial rulings and used State-controlled media to attack magistrates, the ICJ said today.
The ICJ called on the Sudanese authorities to put an end to the incommunicado detention of Mr. Salih Mahmoud Osman and to either charge him with an offence or immediately release him.
A return to the old practice of exerting insidious political influence over the judiciary, compounded by ill-considered legislation, threatens to undermine the gains of Moldova’s legal and judicial reform process.
ICJ and others welcome SA President’s condemnation of xenophobia and attempts by private individuals to enforce immigration laws
HRC62: ICJ Urges States to Demand the Release of Arbitrarily Detained Persons in Myanmar
International legal and human rights organizations condemn the Tunisian Authorities’ escalating attacks on the legal profession, the independence of the judiciary and civil society
UN human rights experts find Egypt’s detention of political economist Abdel Khaleq Farouq arbitrary and call for his immediate release