East Timor Legal Information Site
"Provides up-to-date postings on the legal issues in East Timor in the English language. News is sourced from the U.N. Intergrated Mission in Timor-Leste, the UNMIT daily national media review, press releases from the council of ministers, the national parliament, political parties, national and international law and justice nongovernmental organizations, the U.N. Police in East Timor security reports and the international media."
Author: Warren Wright is an Australian lawyer. He also authors 1999 Crimes Against Humanity in East Timor.
Blawg Related Categories: International Law • Legislation & Lobbying • International • Asia
Recent Posts from East Timor Legal Information Site
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East Timor Council of Ministers Meeting 3 December 2008
1. Decree-Law that approves the Scheme of Allocation of scholarships to children of Veterans and Martyrs of National Liberation. 2. Decree-Law which grants to approve the Professional for Justice and UNTL 3. Decree-Law that approved…
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East Timor Legal News 1 - 2 December 2008
Fretilin urges publication of investigative findings on Hortas assassination attempt Radio Televisaun Timor Leste 2 December 2008 - Brigadier Ruak to face inquiry - Horta urges Fretilin to keep contributing to peace - Reforming judicial…
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East Timor Legal News 3 December 2008
East Timor Court of Appeal President Claudio Ximenes is seriously sick: PM Gusmao - Public Prosecution prepares accusation to the court on 11 Feb attacks - Govt will sack Timorese ambassador to Portugal - European…
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Letter from East Timor - Maria Dunell RSJ
Letter from Maria Dunell RSJ Institutu Mary MacKillop Becora, Dili, Timor-Leste 30 November, 2008 Dear Sisters, family and friends, Greetings from Dili, Timor-Leste where the rain is falling steadily, softening the earth and watering the…
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East Timor IDPs face difficult journey home
DILI, 1 December 2008 (IRIN) - More than 100,000 people fled their homes in 2006 for welfare centres and relatives' homes when violence erupted following splits within the police and military.
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East Timor kills Chinese power deal
Asia Times Online 03/12/08 - A US$390 million power project tendered to Chinese investors was to be the defining action of the Parliamentary Majority Alliance (AMP) coalition government, with the infrastructure seen as crucial for…
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Judiciary under attack in East Timor
FRETILIN Media Release 2 December 2008 Judiciary under attack in TimorLeste. Timor-Leste's de facto government last week stepped up its assault on the judiciary by blocking the reappointment of a senior judge who ruled against…
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East Timor's women speak out after brutal imprisonment
ABC Australia News 02/12/08 By Sarah Hawke - In their country's quarter of a century-long struggle for independence, around 10,000 East Timorese people were taken as political prisoners by Indonesia.
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Oecusse District Court Criminal Trials November 2008
On 17/11 the Oe-Cusse District Court was scheduled to conduct hearings into the following three criminal cases: Case No. 34/P.CO/IX/TDO/2007 (defendant VO and others), Case No. 37/P.CO/IX/TDO/2007 (defendant NDS and others) and Case No. 45/TDO/2008…
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Oecusse District Court Report - Victim And Foetus Die From Abortion
On 19/11 the Oe-Cusse District Court conducted a hearing into a case of abortion involving the defendants LL and ES. The victim of this case died. The prosecutors indictment stated that in March 2007 in…