Concerns about deteriorating health Yu Wensheng
Yu Wensheng is a Chinese human rights lawyer who has been actively involved in politically sensitive cases against the government and who has been detained for his work as a lawyer since 2018. Lawyers for Lawyers has received worrying information concerning Yu Wensheng’s deterioration of his health while being held in prison. Human rights lawyer Yu […]
Angelo Karlo Guillen: “Human rights is a very dangerous field”
Text: Jan van Vegchel and Benthe Priester “Never in history was being a Filipino human rights lawyer as dangerous as it is today”, says Atty. Angelo Karlo Guillen, “AK” for friends. “I come from a family of human rights activists, so there is no doubt that I will continue fighting for this cause. But it […]
Joint letter on conviction and imprisonment Robert Roșu
In a joint letter Lawyers for Lawyers and the Law Society of England and Wales express concern about the conviction and imprisonment of lawyer Robert Roșu from Romania. On 17 December 2020, the High Court of Justice and Cassation of Romania found lawyer Robert Roșu, partner at the law firm Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii in Bucharest, […]
Statement on the sentencing of three Burundian lawyers
In February 2021, Burundian lawyers Dieudonné Bashirahishize, Armel Niyongere, Vital Nshimirimana were informed that they were sentenced in absentia to lifelong imprisonment. In January 2017, the three Burundian lawyers had already been disbarred from the Burundi Bar Association by request of its Ministry of Justice on the charges of “participation in an insurrectional movement”, “attempt […]
Join statement on the occasion of the first International Fair Trial Day and Ebru Timtik Award
Today, 14 June 2021, marks the inaugural International Fair Trial Day (IFTD) which will be observed for the first time worldwide. The focus country of the IFTD this year is Turkey, a country that is and has been suffering for many years, from systemic human rights violations and a serious lack of fair trial standards. […]
Justice: Qalb Al Adala and the reality of life as a lawyer in the UAE
Justice: Qalb Al Adala is a relatively new Netflix TV show featuring an Abu Dhabi female lawyer; Farah. Justice is the first Emirates series that is worldwide available on Netflix. According to the makers of the TV show, Justice: Qalb Al Adala paints an accurate picture of the local legal system as it has been […]
Vacature student-stage
Gemiddeld 8 uur/wk, per 1 september 2021 Wil jij het verschil maken voor bedreigde advocaten die opkomen voor de rechten van anderen? Wil jij leren hoe een NGO werkt en een netwerk opbouwen met advocaten van kleine en grote kantoren? En wil je dat doen in een jong, dynamisch en bevlogen team met projecten met […]
World Environment Day 2021
Today, the 5th of June, is World Environment Day. Worldwide this day engages governments, businesses and citizens to focus on pressing environmental issues. Lawyers for Lawyers would like to take this opportunity to draw attention to the work of environmental lawyers around the world. All around the world environmental lawyers dedicate themselves to protect the earth, […]
Lawyers from Algeria, Belarus and Myanmar shortlisted for the 2021 Award
Lawyers from Myanmar and Belarus, and a lawyers’ collective from Algeria are shortlisted as finalists for the 2021 Lawyers for Lawyers Award. The 2021 Award will be presented to the laureate during a seminar hosted by Lawyers for Lawyers and the Amsterdam Bar Association in Amsterdam on 18 November 2021. The ceremony will also be […]
No hearing in trial Li Yuhan
On June 4th, 1989, the People’s Liberation Army forcefully ended student protests in Tiananmen square in Beijing, China. Although the number of dead and wounded has never been officially established, estimates run into the thousands. The protests had started in April of that year, and were largely led by students. Protestors’ aims were many and […]
Egypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms
In a joint statement, Lawyers for Lawyers alongside 63 organizations from around the world call on the Egyptian authorities, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to take immediate action to end the Egyptian authorities’ wholesale crackdown on independent organizations and peaceful dissent. The statement was an initiative from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS). […]
Concerns about developments in the case of Ding Jiaxi
In a joint statement, Lawyers for Lawyers, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, and ChinaAid express concern about the new developments in the case of human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi. The charges against Ding Jiaxi were altered to a more severe charge of ‘subverting state power’ and reports […]
Concerns about the continued enforced disappearance of Chang Weiping
In a joint statement, Lawyers for Lawyers, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, and ChinaAid voice concern about the residential surveillance at a designated location (RSDL), under which Chang Weiping has been detained since October 2020. To date, his whereabouts are unknown. Chang Weiping is a human rights […]
Lawyers’ Day in Tajikistan
Today is “Lawyers’ Day” in Tajikistan, when lawyers celebrate the establishment of the first Bar Association. The situation of lawyers in Tajikistan remains of concern. In connection to this, Lawyers for Lawyers recently highlighted the concerning situation in a joint submission with the International Bar Association for the Universal Periodic Review of Tajikistan. In the […]
Agenda of the 1st International Fair Trial Day and Ebru Timtik Award
We are happy to share the agenda for the first International Fair Trial Day that will take place on 14 June 2021. On this day, the new annual Ebru Timtik Award will also be introduced. In recognition of Ebru Timtik’s sacrifice, and in order to focus attention on the plight of those in countries around the […]
International online conference: “Who will Defend the Defenders in Turkey?”
20 May 2021, 14:00-15:30 (CET) Human rights belong to everyone. But those who work to ensure that we can claim our rights are increasingly harassed, threatened, or jailed. In Turkey, the climate is particularly worrying. While the human rights record of the country has long been worrisome, since the 2016 coup attempt, all critical human […]