Lawyers tried before Special Terrorism Tribunal
Lawyers for Lawyers expresses its grave concerns about the continued detention and prosecution of Mr Amin Makki Madani and Mr Farug Abu Eisa. Mr Makki Madani is a prominent human rights lawyer, President of the Confederation of Sudanese Civil Society and Vice President of the Civil Society Initiative. Mr Farug Abu Eisa is a former […]
Oral statement to Human Rights Committee
Today Lawyers for Lawyers delivered an oral statement to the Human Rights Committee for the review of the Russian Federation’s compliance with it’s international human rights obligations. Lawyers for Lawyers highlighted the Russian Federation’s failure to protect its lawyers and ensure the right to effective legal representation. Lawyers increasingly face threats, physical attacks and harassment […]
Request for protection lawyer Maria Catherine Dannug-Salucon granted by court
On 12 March 2015, the Philippine Court of Appeal granted the application for a Writ of Amparo of Atty. Maria Catherine Dannug-Salucon. It is reportedly the first writ of Amparo granted to a lawyer under attack. The Writ of ‘Amparo’ – which is Spanish for ‘protection’ – is a legal remedy for the protection of […]
Work of lawyers increasingly hindered by investigators
Lawyers in the Russian Federation increasingly face improper interference. Investigators try to exclude lawyers from cases by all means. Since 11 June 2014, Mark Feygin together with lawyers Ilya Novikov and Nikolay Polozov defends Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian air-force pilot who is held in Russia and is charged with the killing of two Russian journalists. Russian […]
Letter to President Rouhani: ‘Review cases detained lawyers’
On Lawyers Day in Iran, Wednesday 26 February, Lawyers for Lawyers expressed its concerns regarding the situation of seven detained lawyers in a letter to President Rouhani. It concerns the lawyers Mostafa Daneshjo, Amir Islami, Farshid Yadollahi, Afshin Karampoor, Omid Behroozi, Mohammed Seifzadeh and Abdolfatah Soltani. Lawyers for Lawyers is concerned that these seven lawyers are detained only […]
Call upon UAE to release imprisoned government critics and reform activists
On the second anniversary of the start of the mass “UAE 94” trial that imprisoned dozens of government critics and reform activists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a coalition of 13 organizations, including Lawyers for Lawyers, calls on the UAE government to release immediately and unconditionally all those imprisoned solely for peacefully exercising their […]
Trial against Intigam Aliyev
On 17 February 2015, another hearing in the case of the human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev took place at the Court of Grave Crimes in Baku, Azerbaijan. This time, Aliyev was not forced to stay in a cage in the courtroom, but was allowed to sit with his lawyers. Russian lawyer Illarion Vasiliev observed the […]
Lawyers sentenced in ‘Raml Police Station’ case
On 9 February 2015, El Raml Misdemeanour Court in Alexandria sentenced 10 human rights activists and lawyers including Mahienour El-Massry, Youssef Shabaan, Loay El Kahwagy to two years’ imprisonment. The sentence could be suspended upon payment of a 5,000 Egyptian Pounds fine (approximately €580) per person. They paid the fine and the case is now pending apppeal. […]
Mazen Darwish 3 years in jail
The Syrian government should immediately free the prominent Syrian human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his colleagues Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Gharir, 71 human rights organizations, including Lawyers for Lawyers said today, on the third anniversary of their arrest. The three men have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty on the basis of their human rights […]
Detained Wang Yonghang’s birthday, in very bad health
Tuesday 17 February is lawyer Wang Yonghang’s 42nd birthday. Unfortunately there is little reason for joy. It will be his sixth birthday in a row in detention. Since July 2009 he is serving a seven-year prison sentence because of his representation of followers of the banned Falun Gong religion. For years, he has been in bad […]
Souad al-Shammari released!
Lawyer Souad al-Shammari was released on 29 January after three months of detention without charge. The conditions of her release and current legal status are unclear. A royal pardon had been issued that day by the new King, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, but it is unclear if she was released because of it. According […]
Judicial harassment of lawyer Azza Soliman
On 24 January 2015, human rights lawyer Azza Soliman was informed that she is being investigated on charges of violating the ‘protest law’. On that day Soliman voluntarily went to the Public Prosecution’s office to give her testimony regarding the violent dispersal of a protest organized by the political party Popular Alliance on the same […]
Physical attack against lawyer in Dagestan
On 4 February 2015, a group of unidentified men attacked defence lawyer Murad Magomedov in Dagestan, causing multiple injuries. The attack took place in broad daylight during a break in a Supreme Court hearing in which Magomedov was defending his client, Akhmed Israpilov, who was on trial on charges of terrorism. The lawyer was assaulted and […]
Sentencing of lawyer Sukhrat Qudratov
Lawyers for Lawyers and the Law Society of England and Wales were concerned to learn the sentencing of Sukhrat Qudratov, a prominent defence lawyer in Tajikistan who had represented the former Minister of Industry, Zaid Saidov. On January 13, 2015, a court of the Capital City of Dushanbe sentenced Qudratov to nine years in a penal colony […]
Trial against Intigam Aliyev
On 23 January 2015, Intigam Aliyev’s lawyer requested in a preparatory meeting before the Criminal Court in Baku to terminate the criminal proceedings against his client. The Court rejected this request and all other applications of the defense. The case has been postponed till 3 February when the date of the first hearing will be […]
Bar rejects request to withdraw license lawyer Vo An Don
On 21 January, the Phu Yen Bar Association sent a communication to the police, prosecutors and court of Tuy Hoa city, in which they appeal to the said authorities against their request to withdraw Vo An Don’s license to practice law. According to the Phu Yen Bar Association, the request to withdraw Don’s license was […]