World in brief : worldwide : 55 die in a year of attacks on jurists
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More than 530 of the world’s judges and lawyers have been attacked over the past year, 55 of them murdered, the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists said in a report prepared for
the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. Covering the period from mid-1990 to mid-1991, the report said that most of the killings occurred in South America. At least 37 judges and lawyers were
murdered in Colombia, and 10 were killed in Peru. The report criticized Serbian authorities in Yugoslavia for actions against courts, judges and prosecutors in the autonomous province of
Kosovo. It also criticized government actions in Sudan, Israel, Rwanda, Paraguay, Turkey, Kenya, China and Burma. MORE TO READ