by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 6, 2023Nine political parties said on Sunday that they were deeply concerned about the issues that have recently been raised over the transitional justice process. Their concerns come two days after the Supreme Court’s order to allow writ petitions seeking criminal investigation against Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal for his statement that he would take responsibility for killings of 5,000 of the 17,000…
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AP report in TOLOnews, Mar 5, 2023— Two former Iraq and Afghanistan War-era defense secretaries are recommending that the government consider new ways to ensure that military service is taken into account when courts prosecute former service members. The Veterans Justice Commission, led by onetime Pentagon chiefs Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta, offered that guidance after reports that a concerning number of veterans have been convicted of crimes since leaving military service. The commission was…
report in Khaama Press on line, Feb 2, 2023Taliban Supreme Court has announced that at least 16 people alleged of different crimes have been flogged in public in southern Helmand Province on Thursday. The alleged individuals accused of different crimes have been lashed in public in the Grishk district of southern Helmand province earlier today, according to the announcement made by the Taliban’s supreme court. The United Nations have described lashing Afghan men and women…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Morning, Jan 24, 2023The Lawyers’ Union of the Colombo Magistrate’s Court held a protest at the Hulftsdorp Courts complex yesterday (23), protesting against the Keselwatta Police reporting facts to the Court through a B report regarding the protest held by a group of lawyers near the Court complex and the Attorney General’s (AG) Department on 18 January, urging the latter not to exert undue pressure on the Judiciary. More than…
report in Dhaka Tribune Desk, January 31, 2023 at 1:56 PMThe Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has given Jamaat-e-Islami two months to prepare the summary of the appeal against a verdict of the High Court that scrapped its registration as a political party. The three member appellate bench headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order on Tuesday. Barrister Tanya Amir, who appeared in representing the writ petitioner, said: “We have taken…
by Munawer Azeem in Dawn, December 30th, 2022ISLAMABAD: Though the interior minister claimed two days ago that suspects had been arrested in connection with last week’s terror attack in the capital, no one has so far been produced in court. Despite failure to produce the suspects in the court to make their arrest or detention legal, the capital police also remained silent over the details of the development including identification of the suspects. On Tuesday,…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Dec 27, 2022Welcoming the recent order issued by the Vavuniya High Court (HC) to the security forces to produce a person who was handed over to them in Mullaitivu by his relatives during the end of war, the Association for the Relatives of Enforced Disappearances in the North and the East yesterday (26) noted that they too would file habeas corpus petitions to identify the whereabouts of their loved…