Tunisia’s President, Kais Saied, has instigated and set in motion a process aimed at replacing the country’s existing consensus-based 2014 constitution in a way that is devoid of any legal basis, democratic legitimacy, inclusivity, accountability and transparency. (more…)
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and 6 other human rights organizations urgently call on the Singaporean authorities to drop their criminal investigations of human rights defenders Kirsten Han and Rocky Howe and cease harassing them through legal processes for their work. (more…)
An opinion piece by Daron Tan, ICJ Associate International Legal Adviser, Asia and the Pacific Programme. (more…)
Yesterday’s mass convictions of opposition party members and human rights defenders on spurious charges should be overturned and the legal provisions used to prosecute them should be repealed or amended in line with international human rights law, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today. (more…)
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has condemned the conviction and death sentences imposed on former Parliamentarian Ko Phyo Zeyar, student activist Ko Jimmy, and opposition activists Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw, by Myanmar’s military. The four were convicted under Myanmar’s Counterterrorism Law for allegedly inciting unrest and taking part in ‘terrorism,’ each […]
A new question and answer briefing by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) examines leaked amendments to Decree 88-2011 on the organisation of associations and the ways in which the amendments would damage to the right to freedom of association, among other human rights, the rule of law, the separation of powers, the independence of […]
