.. support and develop the judiciary. “We highly appreciate the king’s interest and his move to appoint more judges. This will surely help us in removing obstacles we face in the judiciary in general. We thank the king for his efforts to support and upgrade the judiciary, for which the king has created a project entitled “King Abdullah Project for the Development of Judiciary,” he...

.. be tested The Supreme Judiciary Council is developing a test to measure the performance of both veteran and new judges across the country, said Council Member Muhammad Amen Merdad. The Supreme Judiciary Council is developing a test to measure the performance of both veteran and new judges across the country, said Council Member Muhammad Amen Merdad. “Those who fail the tests will undergo...

.. vote rigging in 2009: Judiciary chief Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said on Wednesday that at a meeting after the 2009 presidential election, which Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei also attended, those who claimed that there had been vote rigging in the poll finally acknowledged that no fraud had occurred. Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq...

.. said “we respect the judiciary and their ruling.” The Prime Minister said that the proposed law has not been sent to the National Assembly. “We are exchanging views with the media so as to reach a working formula that does not compromise the freedom of the press or its mission. If you (media) reject the proposal, then it will be kept in the drawers,” he explained. Meanwhile,...

.. the independence of the judiciary in Bahrain, disregarding a number of facts and figures as reported by the monitoring unit tasked with the implementation of the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) in its latest quarterly report issued in November 2012. The US report has not addressed accomplishments made in various reform tracks affecting the security...