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LCA and ABA pair up to condemn violence towards Myanmar lawyers By Emma Ryan|14 April 2021 The Law Council of Australia (LCA) and the Australian Bar Association (ABA) have issued a joint statement following ongoing reports of violence towards lawyers and judges by Myanmar’s military. Since what’s being described as an “unlawful coup d’état” on 1 February 2021, there have been a number of reports relating to intimidation, harassment, arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention of lawyers and judges by Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw. Both the LCA and ABA have expressed ...

The International Bar Association has strongly condemned the systematic destruction by the junta in Myanmar of people’s legal protections, including the right to life, freedom of expression, assembly, association, privacy, legal representation of one’s choice and a fair trial. The IBA called for the restoration of citizens’ rights, and for the release of detained protestors and defence Lawyers. In a statement the global body of Lawyers said: ‘The arrests of legal professionals attempting to represent arbitrarily detained protestors, who were peacefully demonstrating against the 1 Febr...

Published March 17, 2021, 4:42 PM The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has expressed deep concern on the “red-tagging” of a Mandaluyong City regional trial court (RTC) judge who dismissed the illegal possession of firearms and explosives charges filed against journalist Lady Ann Salem and trade unionist Rodrigo Esparago. (Photo courtesy of Rep. Ferdinand Gaite) A tarpaulin posted along EDSA showed the photograph of RTC Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio. Also printed in the tarpaulin was the logo of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) with a message that expresses gratitude to the ...

Introduction A media release of Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, on 3rd March, 2021 gave marching orders to security agents to shoot-on-sight any civilian found in the forest with an AK-47 weapon. Since then the media has been abuzz with mainly non-legal analyses of the subject, until the President directly corroborated the order on 11th March, 2021 during his meeting with the nation’s traditional rulers on the subject of insecurity in Nigeria. Some analysts are of the view that the order is a product of doctrine of necessity. In the humble view of th...

SUMMARY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION’S INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE KILLING OF MR. NSAMA NSAMA CHIPYOKA AND MR. JOSEPH KAUNDA DELIVERED TO THE MEDIA BY THE HYMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON, MR. MUDFORD. Z. MWANDENGA AT THE COMMISSION’S HEAD OFFICE IN LUSAKA ON 4 TH Members of the Press The Commission has invited you to this Press Briefing on the summary findings of its independent investigations to the shooting to death of Mr. Nsama Nsama Chipyoka, former National Prosecution Authority (NPA) Prosecutor and Mr. Joseph Kaunda who was a sympathizer of the opposit...