Saudi justice called a new hearing on Sunday in the trial of Saudi dissident religious Salman al-Aoudah, who faces the death penalty “for a tweet” over the crisis with Qatar, according to his French lawyers.
“The conditions of Carlos Ghosn’s imprisonment in Japan illustrate how much the Japanese justice system ignores the presumption of innocence, argues François Zimeray, a lawyer at the Paris Bar and the International Criminal Court (…)”.
“Saif-ul-Mulook has been targeted by death threats since his the spectacular acquittal of his client Asia Bibi, a labourer from central Punjab province on death row since 2010.
“He is hoping that people will take into account his heroic actions in defending Ms Bibi, given the current circumstances in Pakistan, which led him to exchange his freedom for hers,” Mulook’s lawyer Francois Zimeray told AFP (…)”.
Intervention of François Zimeray on BFM TV.
“The legitimacy of a government is not only based on strict compliance with its constitutional texts, but also on the recognition of other nations,” says François Zimeray, former French ambassador for human rights and mandated by the Venezuelan National Assembly’s Political Committee to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Lawyers for the Commission of internal political affairs of the Venezuelan Parliament, François Zimeray and Jessica Finelle have filed an urgent communication before UN Special Rapporteurs, asking them to urge Nicolas Maduro to end the bloody repression of peaceful demonstrators.
On 15 January 2019, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, and former leader of the ultra-nationalist Young Patriots movement Charles Blé Goudé, were acquitted by the International Criminal Court. They were accused of crimes against humanity, in relation to the crimes that led to the death of more than 3,000 people in 2010 and 2011 in the aftermath of the Ivorian presidential election.
“They are accused of instigating public disturbances and organizing peaceful protests against the government. Among the defendants, Mrs Israa Bint Hassan Bin Abdullah al-Ghamgham could be the first female human rights activist executed in Saudi Arabia”.
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, the 18-year-old Saudi Arabian woman who fled her family in hopes of returning to Australia, is still waiting for the High Commissioner for Refugees to decide her case. His lawyer François Zimeray conveys to Paris Match on the few minutes that turned her destiny upside down (…).