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East Timor Legal News (ETLN) is a service from the East Timor Legal Information Site (ETLIS). The legal news feed is dedicated to the latest legal and political news from East Timor. Sourced from press releases from the government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, the National Parliament, the President, the United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor (UNMISET), the United Nations Police in East Timor (UNPol), political parties, East Timorese and international aw and justice organisations well as links to very latest reports in the international media touching on legal and political issues in Timor-Leste.
 
  Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:24:00 +0100
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 newly planted corn. People have been busy with digging and planting since the first rain began to fall in Dili just over a week ago.
  Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:23:00 +0100
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.
  Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:12:00 +0100
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 improving livelihoods and attracting foreign investment to this impoverished island nation.
  Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:48:00 +0100
FRETILIN Media Release 2 December 2008 Judiciary under attack in Timor–Leste. 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 key budget measures last month.
  Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:54:00 +0100
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.
  Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:52:00 +0100
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 (GDR).
  Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:51:00 +0100
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 prosecutor’s indictment stated that in March 2007 in Betasi, Taiboko the defendant LL entrusted some traditional medicine to the defendant ES to be given to the victim J and to be taken in accordance with instructions set out by the defendant LL. The aim of the two defendants was to enable the victim to abort her four month old fetus.
  Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:48:00 +0100
On 19 November the Oe-Cusse District Court conducted a hearing into a case of sexual assault involving the defendant HN. This immoral incident occurred in December 2006 in Taiboko village, Oe-Cusse. Based on monitoring conducted by JSMP at the aforementioned court, the trial was closed to the public because the case related to the chastity of minors (13 and 11 years old).
  Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:23:00 +0100
01/12/08 PS News: Launched by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith and the Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek, the report, Violence Against Women in Melanesia and East Timor, revealed high levels of domestic violence and sexual abuse in the region.
  Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:10:00 +0100
30 November 2008 Judge Ivo Rosa moved aside. His Honour Ivo Rosa declared illegal part of the government budget. The PM did not like it and so had him set aside."
  Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:40:00 +0100
Source: Pro Bono Australia Posted: 03-11-2008 When international aid agency Oxfam Australia released its latest report highlighting food shortages in the Asia Pacific region and in particular East Timor, it wasn’t counting on a war of words with the Timor-Leste Government.
  Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:44:00 +0100
16 October 2008 : By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters) - East Timor is facing a food crisis and more than half the fledgling country's youngest children are now going hungry as global food prices soar. More than 70 percent of households surveyed across East Timor were "food insecure" and unable to find enough to eat each day for almost half the year in what was fast becoming a food crisis, a group of international aid organisations warned.
  Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:08:00 +0100
CAMP DECOMMISSIONING The EWASH-WG group has presented a letter to the Ministry of Infrastructure, attached to a list of prioritised camps (from where IDPs have left,) requesting equipment from the Ministry of Infrastructure to flatten the sites. Negotiations with the Ministry of Infrastructure are continuing in order to bring the cost of their service to NGOs down to only the cost of fuel.
  Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:48:00 +0100
Source: Joint NGO Security Office and UNMIT - The overall security situation in Timor Leste has been calm during the reporting period. Dili has been generally quiet with few incidents of note. A fatal hit and run traffic accident involving a UN vehicle caused some concern but so far does not appear to have generated any hostility to the UN or to internationals more generally.