For the fist time, about 40 judges and representatives from judicial training institutions across Southeast Asia gathered to discuss recent developments in international human rights law on the right to life, with a focus on extrajudicial executions, deaths in custody and enforced disappearances.
The ICJ calls for the convictions of Abdulrahman Al-Subaihi, Bandar Al-Nogithan and Abdulrahman Al-Rumaih, three prominent Saudi lawyers, to be quashed and for the Saudi authorities to end their sustained crackdown on lawyers and human rights defenders.
The ICJ today expressed serious concern at the killing of lawyer Vitaliy Moiseyev and his wife Elena Moiseyeva in the Moscow region.
On 24-26 September 2014, the ICJ conducted a workshop on fair trial standards and trial monitoring for Vietnamese lawyers in Manila, Philippines.
The objectives of the workshop were to strengthen the participants’ understanding of fair trial standards and to increase the pool of trained lawyers available to conduct trial monitoring activities in the ASEAN region.
As part of the workshop, the participants observed several criminal proceedings at the Regional Trial Court of Quezon city and visited the Paranaque City Jail, in Manila.
The speakers included experts from the Free Legal Aid Group (FLAG), the Human Rights Resource Center (HRRC), and the Asian International Justice Initiative (AIJI).
The ICJ’s manual on trial monitoring, which was used at the training, provides trial observers with practical guidance on how to prepare for a trial observation mission, carry out the observation and write the follow-up report.
It also provides a synthesis of the basic legal standards applicable in relation to (i) the right to a fair trial, (ii) the right to remedy of victims of human rights violations, and (iii) combating impunity.
The ICJ considers the recent decision of the Collegium of Lawyers of Astana, which found no legal ground to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Nurlan Beysekeyev in relation to his representation of a client in Court, to be in line with international standards on the role of lawyers.
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