Veiling Jonge Balie Zwolle-Lelystad ten bate van L4L
Op vrijdag 28 oktober organiseerde de jonge balie Zwolle-Lelystad een veiling ter gelegenheid van haar 40 jarige bestaan, ten behoeve van L4L. In de veiling werden o.a. aangeboden een Herman Brood schilderij, een weekend cabrio rijden, 4 VIP kaarten voor de World Cup schaatsen, 2 kaarten voor de musical Soldaat van Oranje, een Family Fotoshoot, […]
Syria Al Hasani visits the Netherlands
On 17,18 and 19 October, Human Rights Lawyers Muhanad al Hasani from Syria, paid a visit to the Netherlands. On 22 October 2010 Al Hasani was presented with the Amsterdam Dean’s Award. At the time it was not possible for him to collect the Award himself, for he was detained in prison. On 3 June […]
United Nations Human Rights Machinery Training 2011
On Monday 10 October 2011 L4L organized for her volunteers an United Nations Human Rights Machinery Training, in cooperation with stichting Opleiding Advocaten Amsterdam. The training has been developed by the Sollicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and has repeatedly been followed by British lawyers. Inspired by the great success the course booked in England, […]
L4L Muchadehama speaks about the positive effects
At the Annual Congress of the Dutch Bar Association on 23 September 2011, Zimbabwean human rights Lawyer Alec Muchadehama spoke about his work in Zimbabwe with regard to the main theme of the congress; ‘Ethical dilemmas, without borders’. Muchadehama has been a member of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in Harare since 2003, […]
Jail sentence Nasrin Sotoudeh reduced
An appeals court in Iran has reduced the prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh‘s jail sentence. Sotoudeh defended many of the human rights activists who were arrested after the presidential elections in June 2009. She also defended Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer and Nobel laureate who co-founded the Defenders for Human Rights Center. She also acted as lawyer of the Iranian-Dutch […]
Criminal trial against lawyer
On September 8, 2011, labor union lawyer Natalya Sokolova was sentenced to six years in jail by the city court of Aktau in Kazakhstan after finding her guilty of “inciting social discord” and “organizing illegal gatherings.” She had been arrested and charged after she spoke out on issues such as wage disparity and defended oil workers’ rights at companies in western Kazakhstan. […]
Annual Congress of Dutch Bar Association 2011 – Special guest Alec Muchadehama
At the invitation of L4L, Alec Muchadehama, who received the first Lawyers for Lawyers Award on 15 April 2011, will attend the Annual Congress of the Dutch Bar Association in Breda on 23 September. L4L will organize a workshop where Muchadehama will use the main theme of the congress, ‘Ethical dilemmas, without borders’, to talk […]
Procedural irregularities in case against Magomedova
L4L organizes a letter writing campaign in order to ask attention for the situation of Sapiyat Magomedova, a lawyer from Dagestan. In July 2010, Magomedova launched an official complaint against members of the police for beating and forcibly removing her from Khasavyurt town police station on 17 June 2010 where she went to visit her […]
Physical violence against lawyer Tatiana Tomina
L4L would like to bring to your attention the situation of lawyer Tatiana Tomina. Tatiana Tomina is a lawyer from the Human Rights Advocacy Center in Osh Ms. Tomina, and is representing an ethnic Uzbek on trial in relation to the 2010 ethnic violence cases. This case strongly resembles the case of Tahir Asanov that […]
Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs speaks with Al-Maleh
Haitham al-Maleh, the Syrian lawyer who was released from prison on 8 March 2011, visited Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Rosenthal on 11 August 2011. According to a press release of the Ministry, “[Rosenthal] expressed his sympathy with the Syrian people to Al-Maleh. ‘The violence used by the Syrain regime against the demonstrators is unacceptable […]
Haitham al-Maleh visits International Criminal Court
On 5 August 2011, Syrian human rights lawyer Haitham al-Maleh, who was released from prison on 8 March 2011, visited the International Criminal Court in The Hague to speak to a representative of Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo. L4L arranged the meeting. Dutch Human Rights Ambassador Lionel Veer also spoke with Al-Maleh. Al-Maleh was arrested in […]
Letter L4L & LRWC to Syrian Bar Association
In a joint letter to the Syrian Bar Association (also in Arabic), L4L and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) called upon the Bar Association to annul the disbarment-for-life of Muhanad al-Hasani. By doing so, it would reconfirm the decision taken by the Syrian authorities in June 2011 to release Al-Hasani, and enable Al-Hasani to finally […]
Call upon Iranian authorities to release Ali Dadkhah from prison
L4L has issued a joint statement with Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada in which they urge the Iranian authorities that Ali Dadkhah will be released from prison.
Mohammed Ali Dadkhah convicted to 9 years in prison
Lawyer and co-founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) Mohammad Ali Dadkhah was convicted to a nine-year prison sentence and barred from working as a lawyer for ten years on 4 July 2011. He was charged with attempting to overthrow the ruling system, according to semi-official news agency ISNA. Dadkhah represented many supporters […]
Amnesty publishes report on legal profession
In an Amnesty International report published on 30 June 2011, the increased pressure on and control of the legal profession by the authorities in China is detailed. According to the report, “the Chinese government has unleashed an uncompromising series of measures intended to rein in the legal profession and suppress lawyers pursuing human rights cases.” […]
Muhanad al-Hassani released from prison after 2 years
Muhanad al-Hassani was released after 22 months in prison on 3 June 2011. Almost a year earlier, he was convicted to a three year prison sentence. Earlier, human rights lawyer Haitham al-Maleh was also released before completing a three year prison sentence. The Syrian regime has granted amnesty to many political prisoners at the end […]