The Washington Post recounts the complaint which Jessica Finelle filed before the UN Human Rights Council: “Fichot and Perina, along with seven other fathers and one mother, and on behalf of 14 children from the United States, Canada, France, Italy and Japan, filed a formal complaint to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council arguing that Japan was grossly violating the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.”

Jessica Finelle explains how Mr Ghosn’s re-arrest, after being released under bail, was intended to muzzle him as he was about to speak for the first time and expose his arguments of defense.

“Jessica Finelle told the BBC Mr Ghosn’s “arbitrary detention” violated his right to a fair trial and says a complaint has been filed with the UN.
She said the standard of his treatment did not meet international norms.”

Lawyer Jessica Finelle told The Associated Press in Paris that the family is “extremely shocked” that Tokyo prosecutors arrested Ghosn for a fourth time Thursday. He denies wrongdoing.Finelle accused Japanese authorities of trying to “shut him up,” because Ghosn was arrested just after he announced plans for a news conference […]

Saudi justice called a new hearing on Sunday in the trial of Saudi dissident religious Salman al-Aoudah, who faces the death penalty “for a tweet” over the crisis with Qatar, according to his French lawyers.

“Saif-ul-Mulook has been targeted by death threats since his the spectacular acquittal of his client Asia Bibi, a labourer from central Punjab province on death row since 2010.
“He is hoping that people will take into account his heroic actions in defending Ms Bibi, given the current circumstances in Pakistan, which led him to exchange his freedom for hers,” Mulook’s lawyer Francois Zimeray told AFP (…)”.

“The legitimacy of a government is not only based on strict compliance with its constitutional texts, but also on the recognition of other nations,” says François Zimeray, former French ambassador for human rights and mandated by the Venezuelan National Assembly’s Political Committee to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

“Avocat de Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko dit “J3M” dans le procès qui a opposé ce dernier aux autorités congolaises qui l’accusaient “d’atteinte à la sûreté de l’Etat et de détention d’armes”, Jessica Finelle (cabinet parisien Zimeray & Finelle) est parvenue à faire condamner le régime de Denis Sassou Nguesso devant le groupe de travail des Nations unies sur la détention arbitraire…”.

“… Face au refus du gouvernement d’obtempérer aux préconisations des experts onusiens, Jessica Finelle, l’avocate du général Mokoko, affirme que « la défense va saisir les bailleurs internationaux, comme le Fonds monétaire internationale (FMI) et l’Union européenne, pour que ces derniers exigent des autorités congolaises le respect des recommandations formulées par le groupe de travail de l’ONU » …”.