Sri Lanka Lawyer has to flee country
The renowned lawyer and human rights activist Ariyaratne received death threats so serious that he had to flee his home country of Sri Lanka. L4L provided the financial resources for his escape. Mr. Ariyaratne has been a lawyer in Sri Lanka for more than 15 years. He acts, among others, for Right to Life, an […]
Marokko NOVA en Dichtbij Nederland besteden aandacht aan het lot van Kanjaa
Abdellatif Kanjaa schreef in 2006 samen met twee andere advocaten uit het district Tetouan een open brief over de integriteit van de rechterlijke macht in Marokko. Daarin uitten zij kritiek op de corruptie die volgens hen plaatsvindt in een deel van de rechterlijke macht, in het bijzonder bij het Gerechtshof van Tetouan. Op 13 juli […]
Tunisia Mohamed Abbou’s travel ban lifted
Mohamed Abbou was informed by the Tunisian Ministry of Justice and Human Rights on 28 March 2009 that he is permitted to travel abroad freely again. In 2005, after a trial that breached standards of due process, Mohamed Abbou was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for committing libel. According to Abbou and […]
L4L Nieuwsflits
Op 30 maart 2009 verscheen de eerste Nieuwsflits van L4L waarin wij u op de hoogte willen stellen van de zaken waar L4L zich de laatste tijd mee bezig heeft gehouden. U kunt zich hier aanmelden voor de Nieuwsflits.
The Philippines Also lawyers among vitims of Maguindanao massacre
“If they can kill lawyers, they can kill practically anybody.” That is what lawyer Concepcion (‘Conny’) Brizuela stated in a conversation with the members of the L4L mission investigating extrajudicial killings of lawyers and judges on the Philippines in November 2008. Conny also told that she had moved to another island of the Philippines because […]
China Letter writing action for Chinese lawyer
On November 23, 2009, Chinese lawyer Huang Qi was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. He was convicted for illegal possession of state secrets. Human rights organizations, including L4L, assume that Huang Qi’s conviction is connected to his work for relatives of the earthquake victims in Sichuan, May 2008. This matter seems to be highly […]
Iran Dutch ‘Human Rights Tulip’ 2009 awarded to Shadi Sadr
As a lawyer, journalist and researcher, Shadi Sadr has dedicated herself to the rights of women in Iran. “Shadi Sadr receives the Human Rights Tulip for her outstanding courage, firmness and work in a climate of very critical and repeated violations of human rights”, said Minister Verhagen (Foreign Affairs). As a lawyer, Sadr defends women’s […]
Colombia L4L meets Colombian lawyers
On 6 November 2009 L4L had a meeting with Colombian human rights lawyers Eduardo Carreño of the Lawyers’ Collective José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR), and Agustín Jimenez of the Committee for Solidarity with Political Prisoners (CSPP). Both have devoted themselves to the improvement of the situation of citizens in Colombia whose human rights are not respected. […]
Morocco Good news from Morocco
Recently, Abdellatif Kanjaa informed L4L that he has regained permission to practice as a lawyer. This is the outcome of a judgment of the Court of Appeal in Rabat on 29 October 2009. Kanjaa writes that “the Court agrees that I am again permitted to practice my profession as a lawyer.” He believes the judgment […]
Iran Passport Abdolfatah Soltani confiscated
On 2 October 2009, the Iranian authorities confiscated Abdolfatah Soltani’s passport. At that moment Soltani was about to travel to Germany in order to receive the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award. He was also summoned at the Secretariat of the Iranian President. The incident is a new example of a lengthy series of intimidations against […]
Peru Schrijfactie voor Santos Villalobos
In de regio Bagua in Peru heerst al meer dan een jaar hevige onrust onder leden van de inheemse plaatselijke bevolking. Deze onrust wordt veroorzaakt doordat de Peruaanse regering, die nieuwe wetgeving aanneemt waardoor in het leefgebied van de traditionele bevolking van Bagua olie kan worden opgepompt door buitenlandse investeerders. Als reactie op deze nieuwe […]
Colombia Human Rights First: “Strafrechtelijke vervolging als middel om voorvechters van mensenrechten te stoppen”
In februari 2009 heeft Human Rights First een rapport uitgebracht over de vervolging van voorvechters van de mensenrechten in Colombia. In dit rapport wordt verslag gedaan van onderzoek naar 32 zaken waarin personen die zich hard maken voor de mensenrechten worden vervolgd. Onder de onderzochte zaken bevindt zich een vijftal zaken tegen advocaten. Het betreft […]
Birma L4L provides financial support to two Burmese human rights lawyers
In September 2009, two lawyers from Myanmar (Burma) asked L4L for financial support. After the both of them served a jail sentence of 4 months, they were informed that their lawyer’s license had been revoked. They were convicted to a four-year prison sentence during a hearing in a penal case, when they informed the judge […]
China Vergunningen ingetrokken en arrestatie Wang Yonghang
Philippines Documentary about IVFFM
In November 2008 the International Verification and Fact Finding Mission (IVFFM), which consisted of lawyers and judges from the Netherlands and Belgium, investigated the extrajudicial killings on their collegues in the Philippines. The delegates concluded that the progress made by the Philippine authorities since an earlier mission in 2006 must be considered insufficient. Moreover, killings […]
L4L Arnold Tsunga geïnterviewd tijdens Jaarcongres NOvA 2009
Tijdens het jaarcongres van de Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten op 25 september 2009 sprak L4L-voorzitter Phon van den Biesen met de Zimbabwaanse mensenrechtenadvocaat Arnold Tsunga. Zij spraken over de advocatuur in Zimbabwe en over wat het voor advocaten betekent om hun vak uit te oefenen in tijdens van crisis en ernstige overheidsoppressie. Aansluitend was er […]
