Report of a visit to Afghanistan, 15-21 February 2010

16 February: Arrival in Kabul Upon meeting me, Ms. Stilz of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) was surprised that I had arrived with no one to protect or accompany me. Her remarks exposed the dilemma that visitors on...

Letter to the High Rep on Mandate of international Judges at BiH Court

On December 14th, 2009, the mandate of international judges and prosecutors at the Court of Bosnia and Hercegovina will expire. The parlianmentarians of the Republika Srpska refused to extend their mandate. Only the High...

Report of a visit to Pakistan (Islamabad and Lahore), 16-21 November 2009

A Country on the Edge - Anyone travelling to Pakistan with its national airline soon gains an impression of the real situation in the country: without massive financial support from outside, Pakistan would have been finished long...

Politicised justice in Russia: the Khodorkovsky trial concerns us too

After attending the court proceedings against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev on 2 November 2009 in Moscow, Marieluise Beck (Member of the German Bundestag), Ralf Fücks (Member of the Board of the Heinrich Böll...

Council of Europe: Debate on politically-motivated Abuses of the criminal Justice System

At it's 4th part of the 2009 Ordinary Session the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe hold a debate on the report of Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on allegations of politically-motivated abuses of the criminal...