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 […]
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 […]
Disappearance of lawyer Jiang Tianyong
Lawyers for Lawyers has grave concerns about lawyer Jiang Tianyong from China. He disappeared on the evening of 21 November 2016 after visiting the wife of detained human rights lawyer, Xie Yang. Jiang Tianyong is a human rights lawyer who provides legal assistance and advice to marginalized members of Chinese society and other human rights […]
Electra Koutra subject of harassment
Electra Koutra, human rights lawyer from Greece, has experienced harassment allegedly in connection to her representation of several Syrian refugees aged between 13 to 16 years of age. This was reported by the IAPL Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers on their website. On 27 September 2016, several Syrian refugees aged between 13 to 16 years old […]
L4L and FTW monitor hearings in two trials
On Tuesday 22 November 2016, the criminal trial of 12 lawyers, almost all of whom are members of the OHD, the Association of Lawyers for Liberty, continued. All these lawyers are accused of involvement in terrorist activities. Lawyers from Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L) and Fair Trial Watch attended the trial in Istanbul. The President of the […]
RUN Dam 2 Dam 2017
Op 17 september 2017 gaat de 33ste editie van de Dam tot Damloop van start. Lawyers for Lawyers heeft 50 deelnemersbewijzen voor de goede doelen loop, 10 Engelse Mijl (16,09 km). Naast dat je een sportieve uitdaging aangaat, help je ook L4L: door je deelname draag je bij aan de ondersteuning van advocaten in nood. […]
Surprising developments in the KCK case
On 14 November 2016, observers from Lawyers for Lawyers, Fair Trial Watch and a representative of 11 regional Dutch Bar Associations again attended a hearing in the KCK case – the case against 46 lawyers who are accused of being involved in terrorism. They were all at some point involved in the defense of the […]
Arrest and provisional release of Levent Pişkin
Lawyers for Lawyers is very concerned about the continues harassment of lawyers in Turkey in connection to their legitimate activities as attorneys. Last Monday, police arrested lawyer Levent Pişkin after he allegedly conveyed messages from one of his clients to Der Spiegel and with that propagandizing terrorism. Together with the Law Society of England and […]
Harassment of Elchin Sadigov
Elchin Sadigov, a lawyer from Azerbaijan, was subjected to innuendo and threats. According to Freedom House, this mistreatment was connected to the lawyers’ professional activities. On 3 November 2016, a media outlet posted articles accusing human rights lawyer Elchin Sadigov of being romantically involved with the wife of his client Fikrat Faramazoglu. On day before, […]
Concluding observations UN Human Rights Committee
In October 2016, the UN Human Rights Committee reviewed Azerbaijan’s compliance with its international human rights obligations. Last week, the Committee issued the concluding observations of this review. Lawyers for Lawyers welcomes the recommendation in which the Committee calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to “take immediate measures to ensure that sufficient safeguards are in place, both in law […]