e-mail this to a friend printable version » 11/16/2012 14:39SRI LANKAUN envoy urges Sri Lanka to ensure judicial independence by Melani Manel PereraUnited Nations Special Rapporteur Gabriela Knaul speaks out against the impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. For her, reprisals and disciplinary measures against judges are unacceptable.Colombo (AsiaNews) – Sri Lanka must “take immediate and adequate measures to ensure the physical and mental integrity of members of the judiciary and to allow them to perform their professional duties without any restrictions, improper influences, pressures, threats or interferences, in line with the country’s international human rights obligations,” said Gabriela Knaul, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, in relation to the case of Dr Shirani Bandaranayake, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, who is facing impeachment procedures in parliament.
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SRI LANKA – UN envoy urges Sri Lanka to ensure judicial independence