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Over Record of ‘political prisoners’ from Tolbert era
The utterance by Chief Justice Francis Korkpor that there were no political prisoners when he was employed with the Ministry of Justice, decades prior to becoming the head of the Judicial Branch of the Government, did not go down well with Counselor Tiawan Gongloe, who himself was a victim.
Addressing the opening of the March 2021 Term of the Supreme Court, Justice Korkpor, for the first time, recalled allegations that while working with the MoJ in the late 1970s as Research Coordinator at the Bureau of Correction, during the administration of President William R. Tolbert, it was reported that he tortured political prisoners.
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Judge Roland Dahn
Since the close of the 8th United Nations Congress adopted in 1990, state actors agreed on this basic principle that says, “All persons are entitled to call upon the assistance of a lawyer of their choice to protect and establish their rights and to defend them in all stages of criminal proceeding.”
The basic principle further places responsibility upon the government and the legal profession to ensure that everyone has access to counsel, regardless of means or background, to protect the right to equality before the law.
In adherence to this international obligation, Associate Justice Yussif Kaba, the chairman of the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC), is now placing the responsibility on his commission to provide a lawyer for Hans Armstrong, a British national, to represent him in the ongoing investigation of Judge Roland Dahn of the 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Nimba County.
Supreme Court declares, affirms NEC Board of Commissioners’ in favor of Rep. Snowe
Following intense legal wrangling over allegations of reported fraud and irregularities said to have marred the December 8 Special Senatorial Election in Bomi County, the Supreme Court has declared that there is “No evidence to substantiate the claims.”
Edwin Melvin Snowe, the current Representative of Bomi County District#1, contested in the December 2020 Senatorial election and was earlier declared by the National Elections Commission as the winner over his main rival, J. Alex Tyler, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and former Representative of District #2 in the county. Mr. Tyler, who was accused during the Voter Roll Update of trucking voters from Monrovia to Bomi for registration, did not accept the declaration of Snowe as a winner but took the matter to the Supreme Court.