Patricia Michelsen-King was observing the proceedings in a Chesterfield, Virginia, courtroom a few years ago when a man shouted in Spanish from the back of the courtroom, "I didn't rape anybody!" ...

Article 14(3)(f) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) guarantees free interpreter assistance to defendants who cannot understand or speak the language used in court.

Court interpreters and translators have withdrawn services at a court in a protest over freelance working conditions, with one claiming her peers live "pretty much on the poverty line". Interpreters ...