The attached report describes the current judicial proceedings against Justice Thomas Masuku of Swaziland, who is facing a variety of unsubstantiated charges of judicial misconduct. The proceedings against Justice Masuku are contextualized in the report with a description of the wider, ongoing rule of law crisis in Swaziland.
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