Project Updates
Update on Hirak El-Rif trials
ISLP is thrilled to report that Moroccan journalist Hamid El Mahdaoui has been released from prison. ISLP’s Media Law Working Group has been following his case closely since February 2019, including through trial observation and intervention through the filing [...]
Balancing Conservation and Economic Development in the Amazon
Conservation of the Amazon rainforest is vitally important to all of us. It covers only 4% of the earth’s surface, but provides 20% of our fresh water, contains one third of known plant, animal, and insect species, and acts [...]
A Tale of Two Trials
Does the presence of a prominent foreign lawyer acting as a trial observer for the international community occasionally modify the behavior of prosecutors and judges? The recent experiences of three ISLP media lawyers in two criminal trials in the [...]
Media Law Training Program with MISA Zimbabwe
Participants that attended the Media Law Training Program in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. On February 25 - 26, 2020, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Zimbabwe chapter and ISLP conducted a participatory training session on media law and [...]
MLWG Hosts Webinar on Press Freedom
Last month, ten Palestinian human rights lawyers in Ramallah participated in a Skype webinar hosted by ISLP. They discussed relying on press freedom case law from the European Court of Human Rights in their domestic litigation defending bloggers and [...]
One Amicus Curiae Brief, Six Free Speech Acquittals
Do amicus curiae briefs work? Do they help influence the outcome of a case? The effectiveness of an expert amicus curiae brief was on display in a Palestinian criminal court on September 16. Six Palestinian bloggers on trial for [...]