A number of prominent French lawyers issued a strong statement today, celebrating the end of an 11-year legal ordeal by Iranian dissidents in France, declaring it a victory for justice and a blow to tyranny. The struggle began in French courts in 2003 when 164 activists of the principal Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin […]
Kenya: Government Obligated to Arrest Suspect Wanted for Bribing Witnesses, Lawyers Say
By Felix Olick, Simon Jennings – International Justice – ICC ACR Issue 364, 6 Oct 13 Experts in international law insist Kenya has no choice but to surrender a journalist wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), despite hints from officials that the national judiciary will make the final decision on whether he should be […]
3 Pesco/WAPDA officers arrested and sent to Jail
Low voltage unscheduled load shedding 3 Pesco officers were sent to jail By: Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: Due to low voltage and unscheduled load shedding in different parts of Chitral town the Consumer Court arrested 3 Pesco (Peshawar Electricity Supply Company) officers in the premises of Court territory and sent to Jail. According to Additional […]
Freedom likely for those arrested in “Operation Leech”
There is a ray of hope for the early release of 34 Myanmar nationals who are being tried on charges of gun running in Kolkatta court, twelve years after they were arrested in the midst of the mysterious “Operation Leech” in Andaman’s Landfall Islands, Their defence lawyers have moved a petition on May 5, […]
Mugabe Turns Screw on Rights Activists and Lawyers
New wave of repression as Mugabe prepares for second round of leadership contest. By Jabu Shoko in Harare President Robert Mugabe is heaping pressure on the country’s civil society organisations and the human rights lawyers who represent them ahead of the presidential run-off later this month. On June 5, Zimbabwe’s public service minister Nicholas Goche […]
For Offering To Defend Tibetans, Chinese Lawyers Get Licenses Revoked
The Beijing Judicial Bureau has taken away the legal licenses of Jiang Tianyoung and Teng Biao. They were no longer allowed to renew their legal licenses. Why? Both activist lawyers had offered to represent the Tibetans that were recently arrested in a security sweep. According to the bureau, the case was “sensitive” at best. This […]
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