ICJ welcomes ruling in Anwar appeal
The ICJ welcomed Malaysia’s highest court ruling overturning former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy conviction and sentence of nine years imprisonment and setting him free.
No more delays in Anwar appeal
The ICJ urged the Malaysian Federal Court to deliver its judgment expeditiously in the appeal of Anwar Ibrahim. The former deputy prime minister is in jail on politically motivated charges of corruption and sodomy.
ICJ hopes Leyla Zana release is a step towards rule of law
The ICJ welcomes the release yesterday of Leyla Zana, a Sakharov prize winner, and her co-defendants.
Guilty verdict for jailed former parliamentarians is a setback for the rule of law
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.”
Five lawyers in incommunicado detention
Five Sudanese lawyers who have been arbitrarily arrested and detained must be either charged or released, said the Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the ICJ.
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