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 […]
Calls to help ill lawyer Isakhan Ashurov
Lawyer Isakhan Ashurov from Azerbaijan is not afraid to stick out his neck: he mainly takes on cases other lawyers not dare to take on because of their political sensitivity, such as cases against journalists who criticize the government. He is described as the most important lawyer and advocate of democracy in the country. He […]
Final report Caravana: legal profession still under attack
Here you can download the final report of the ‘Caravana Internacional de Juristas’, an fact-finding mission in August 2010 to Colombia, in which L4L participated.
Crackdown also hits human rights lawyers
The unrest in Syria has been going on for weeks, but has so far seemingly only resulted in numerous arrests of people who can in one way or another be associated with the protests. Arrests of family members and neighbors of protesters and dissidents seem to be used as leverage. The security forces in Syria […]
Khaled al-Anesi: ‘Iedereen kan mij aanvallen’
Al bijna drie maanden bivakkeert de Jemenitische advocaat Khaled Al-Anesi in een tentje op het plein voor de universiteit van de Jeminitische hoofdstad Sana’a. Hij vertrekt niet voordat president Saleh is afgetreden. ‘We hebben geen keus. Hij moet weg.’ Khaled Al-Anesi kàn ook niet van het plein af. Hij wordt vrijwel dagelijks bedreigd, zegt hij […]
Verhagen speaks to Shaoping on human rights in China
Dutch Minister of Economy Verhagen spoke in May 2011 to human rights lawyer Mo Shaoping, who acted as lawyer to inter alia Nobel Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo. It turned out from the conversation that the human rights situation in China has severely deteriorated over the last weeks. ‘It is worrisome that not only people with […]
Russian Federation killer Markelov sentenced for life
The alleged killer of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov was sentenced for life on Friday 6 May 2011. Nikita Tichonov, an extreme nationalist, committed the murder together with his girlfriend Jevgenia Chassis, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison. A possible motif for the murder is that the extreme nationalists wanted to avenge the […]