Harassment of lawyer Salah Dabouz
Lawyer Salah Dabouz has, for the past few months, faced ongoing harassment. The harassment is a result of his involvement as lead lawyer in the legal defense of human rights defender Kamal Eddin Fekhar and his colleagues. This was reported by Frontline Defenders on their website. On 6 March 2017, Salah Dabouz was informed that […]
Trial against lawyer Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla
Lawyers for Lawyers is concerned by the trial of lawyer Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla from the Republic of Cameroon. Agbor-Balla faces wide-ranging and serious charges, including ‘Hostilities against the Fatherland’ and incitement to civil war and revolution. A number of the indictments carry the death penalty on conviction. This was reported by the International Bar Association’s […]
UN Side Event “The Independence of the Legal Profession”
On 16th March 2017, Lawyers for Lawyers, in partnership with the Law Society of England and Wales, is organising a UN side event at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The side event will focus on the topic of the independence of the legal profession worldwide. Lawyers from Turkey, Cameroon, and Azerbaijan will share their […]
Li Chunfu released on bail
On 12 January 2017, 44-year-old lawyer Li Chunfu was released on bail, after a detention of nearly 18 months. Li Chunfu is the younger brother of Li Heping, another prominent human rights attorney who was arrested on 10 July 2015 (one month before Li Chunfu was arrested). When Li Chunfu’s wife, Bi Liping, saw him […]
Killing of lawyer U Ko Ni
Lawyers for Lawyers was shocked to learn about the killing of lawyer U Ko Ni on 29 January 2017. We call on the authorities of Myanmar to conduct a prompt, thorough, impartial and transparent investigation into the killing of U Ko Ni. According to our information, on 29 January 2017, U Ko Ni was shot […]
Crimea Lawyers harassed
Lawyers for Lawyers is concerned about the harassment of Emil Kurbedinov and Nikolai Polozov, both working as human rights defense lawyers in the Crimea. Both lawyers were detained in January 2017. This was reported by Human Rights Watch on their website. Since the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Kurbedinov and Polozov have been […]
Burundi Lawyers disbarred
On 16 January 2017, the ‘Secrétaire Général et porte parole de la Cour Suprême’ of Burundi posted a message on her Twitter account, stating lawyers Vital Nshimirimana, Armel Niyongere, Dieudonnee Bashirahishize from the Bujumbura Bar Association, and to suspend Lambert Nigarura for one year. The lawyers have to date not been duly notified. In October […]
Nomination L4L Award 2017 open
Nominate now! Until 15 February 2017 you can nominate a lawyer, or a group of lawyers, for the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2017. This award is presented every two years to a lawyer who promotes the rule of law and human rights in an exceptional way, who has been threatened or obstructed because of his […]
Day of the Endangered Lawyer
Tuesday 24 January 2017 is the “Day of the endangered lawyer”. This year, the annual events focus on lawyers in China. In July 2015, a unprecedented and seemingly well-coordinated detention campaign of a large number of human rights lawyers and defenders in China took place. More than 300 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, and rights activists were targeted […]
Vietnam Nguyen Van Dai detained for one year – send him a postcard!
The Vietnamese government must immediately and unconditionally release human rights lawyer and blogger Nguyen Van Dai, Lawyers for Lawyers and other organizations said today. Nguyen Van Dai has been arbitrarily detained for exactly one year, without access to legal representation or any word of an upcoming trial. Nguyen Van Dai was arrested on December 16, […]
Sentencing of two lawyers in UAE
On 12 December, Lawyers for Lawyers called on the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to immediately release Vahit Aykut Ergil and Abdulmetin Uraçin, both lawyers from Turkey. We have reason to believe that their conviction might be connected to their legitimate activities as attorney. According to our information, on 27 October 2016, Vahit […]
Travel ban and asset freeze against human rights lawyers
In a letter, Lawyers for Lawyers called upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately lift the travel ban against Azza Soliman and Malek Adly and to immediately and unconditionally lift the assets freeze imposed against Azza Soliman her law firm. Lawyers for Lawyers is extremely concerned about these acts of harassment against Ms. Azza Soliman and […]
Razan Zaitouneh missing for three years
Since human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh, her husband and two colleagues were abducted on 9 December 2013, no one has heard of them. Today, exactly three years after their disappearance, fifty-six organizations, Lawyers for Lawyers amongst them, called for their immediate release. Razan Zeitouneh, Wa’el Hamada, Samira Khalil, and Nazem Hammadi disappeared in Douma, after group […]
Human Rights Day: Join Lawyers for Lawyers’s campaigns!
On 10 December – Human Rights Day- people from all over the world will write letters. For those who are in prison, who are tortured or who are threatened. Among them are many lawyers that Lawyers for Lawyers is campaigning for. On a regular basis, we support lawyers by writing letters to the authorities of the […]
Petition to WGAD on Nguyen Van Dai
Together with Media Legal Defence Initiative, PEN International, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada and Viet Tan, Lawyers for Lawyers filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) urging it to intervene in the case of lawyer Nguyen Van Dai. Van Dai has been detained incommunicado since being arrested on 16 December 2015 while […]
Report Caravana mission
On 18 November 2016, the report of the fifth Caravana de Juristas mission to Colombia was published. Lawyers for Lawyers joined the mission for the fifth time. In August 2016, Wout Albers and Marit Balkema visited Colombia with the Caravana. The mission consisted of lawyers, prosecutors and judges from 12 different countries and took place […]
