Joint UPR submission Zimbabwe
On 15 July 2021, Lawyers for Lawyers together with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) submitted a report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Zimbabwe. The UPR of Zimbabwe will take place in January 2022. In the report, Lawyers for Lawyers and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights emphasize that Zimbabwe is currently not fulfilling […]
End harassment of Michał Romanowski
Lawyers for Lawyers, the Amsterdam Bar Association and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) call for an end to the harassment of Polish lawyer Michal Romanowski, in relation to his legitimate professional activities. Michał Romanowski is a Polish attorney and professor of company law at the University of Warsaw representing Polish and European judges Paweł […]
6-year anniversary of the 709-Crackdown
Today, July 9, 2021 marks the sixth anniversary of what has come to known as the ‘709 Crackdown’: the nationwide crackdown on Chinese lawyers and human rights activists on the 9th of July 2015. During the summer of 2015, the Chinese government began a large-scale operation in which it arrested, summoned or briefly detained an […]
Targeting of Algerian lawyers constitutes new escalation in the unrelenting criminalisation of fundamental freedoms
The undersigned organizations are concerned about the attacks against lawyers from the Collective for the Defence of Hirak Detainees, as part of the Algerian authorities’ accelerated crackdown on the peaceful Hirak movement. The organisations are further alarmed by the recent summary sanctioning of judges, the calling into question of the immunity of lawyers, and the […]
Sixth anniversary of the ‘709 Crackdown’
Today, 9 July 2021, we, the undersigned organizations, take the opportunity to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the crackdown on Chinese lawyers and human rights defenders which occurred in the People’s Republic of China on 9 July 2015. On that date, an estimated 300 lawyers and human rights defenders were arrested, summoned or briefly detained […]
Joint oral statement during id with SR on human rights in Belarus
On 5 July, Lawyers for Lawyers and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada delivered an oral statement during the interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus. The dialogue took place during the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The statement reads as follows: Mme. President, Lawyers for Lawyers and […]
Release the four lawyers convicted at the “UAE 94” trial
On the eight anniversary of the mass “UAE 94” trial that imprisoned dozens of government critics and reform activists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Lawyers for Lawyers and the International Center for Justice and Human Rights (ICJHR) express concern about the continued detention of the lawyers Dr. Mohammed al-Roken, Salem al-Shehhi, Dr. Mohammed al-Mansoori, […]
Abdulmajid Rizoev sentenced
On 14 June, 2021 the District Court of Dushanbe sentenced human rights lawyer Abdulmajid Rizoev to 5 years and 6 months’ imprisonment for “public calls for performance of an extremist activity using the mass media and Internet” under the Tajik Criminal Code. This was reported by Front Line Defenders. We had already raised our concern […]
Side event: Protection of the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
Side-event at the UN 47th Session of the Human Rights Council, Report Launch: Access to Justice as an Integral Element of the Protection of the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Friday, July 2, 2021, 2:00pm – 3:30 pm CEST, Virtual Event via Zoom The side event (click here the flyer) aims to bring together […]
Side event: Increasing Suppression of the Legal Profession in Belarus
Side-event at the UN 47th Session of the Human Rights Council, Lawyers Under Threat: Increasing Suppression of the Legal Profession in Belarus Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 3:00pm-4:00pm CEST, Virtual Event Via Zoom This side-event (click here for flyer) will address apparent government-led attempts to undermine the legal profession inBelarus in the aftermath of Belarus’s 2020 […]
Joint oral statement during id with the SR/IJL
On 28 June, Lawyers for Lawyers alongside the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, and the Law Council of Australia delivered an oral statement during the interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. The dialogue took place during the 47th […]
Joint oral statement during id with the SR/IJL on Philippines, Turkey and Iran
On 28 June, Lawyers for Lawyers alongside, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the International Bar Association’s Institute for Human Rights (IBAHRI), the Association of American Jurists (AAJ), the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), and the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) in the Philippines delivered an oral statement during […]
UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Lawyers for Lawyers has signed a joint statement on China for the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) entered into force on 26 June 1987. The day was designated as the UN International Day in Support of […]
Attacks against lawyers further escalating
Together with 30 lawyers’ organizations, bar associations and human rights organisations, Lawyers for Lawyers signed a joint statement on the escalating attacks against lawyers in the Philippines. The statement was an initiative from Lawyers for Lawyers. Attacks against lawyers in the Philippines continue to take place and killings have reached a record high since the […]
Lawyers for Lawyers nominates Raquel Sánchez for 2021 IBA Award
Lawyers for Lawyers has nominated Raquel Sánchez for the International Bar Association Award 2021 for Outstanding Contribution by a Legal Practitioner to Human Rights. The award will be made to a legal practitioner who, through personal endeavour in the course of such practice, is deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion, protection […]
Fathi al-Tahir Ghayati in pre-trial detention
We have been informed that on 17 May 2021, a group of plain clothed security officers arrested Egyptian lawyer Fathi al-Tahir Ghayati, while he was visiting his family members in the city of Zagazig. After being disappeared for two days, Mr. Ghayati was investigated, charged and subjected to pre-trial detention. Mr. Ghayati is currently still […]