Upcoming hearing in the criminal proceeding against Claudia González Orellana

Spanish version available below On 20 January 2025, a hearing in the case of Claudia González Orellana, human rights lawyer from Guatemala and recipient of the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2023, will take place.  Lawyers for Lawyers will closely monitor the hearings in the case against Ms. González to verify she enjoys all of the […]

International legal community condemns the detention of attorney Şiar Rişvanoğlu

Lawyers for Lawyers joins other international organisations in condemning the detention of Attorney Şiar Rişvanoğlu, who is registered with the Adana Bar Association and a member of the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD), following a police raid on his residence and subsequent arrest at the Çukurova airport in Tarsus. On the morning of 26 November 2024, […]

Call for nominations: Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2025

Lawyers for Lawyers is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Lawyers for Lawyers Award. The Lawyers for Lawyers Award is a biannual prize established in 2011, which aims to honour lawyers who have made significant contributions to the protection of the rule of law and human rights in challenging environments. Through the Award, Lawyers for […]

Arnon Nampa’s right to continue to practice as a lawyer at risk

Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L) is concerned about the ongoing harassment of human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa, who is being targeted for his legitimate work as a lawyer and the exercise of his right to freedom of expression. He has repeatedly been prosecuted and convicted for under Thailand’s lèse-majesté law and has been facing disbarment proceedings […]

Chinese human rights lawyer’s situation worsens: Xu Zhiyong must be released

In a joint statement, Lawyers for Lawyers, The Law Society of England and Wales (‘the Law Society’), Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, Asian Lawyers Network, the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, 29 Principles, The Rights Practice, and the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) express grave concern about human rights lawyer and […]

The arbitrary arrest and detention of lawyer Bedirhan Sarsılmaz

In a joint statement, Lawyers for Lawyers, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights, Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe, and the Law Society of England and Wales express their grave concern about the arrest and detention of lawyer Bedirhan Sarsılmaz. Mr Sarsılmaz is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association and the Association […]

Occupied Crimea: human rights lawyer Aleksey Ladin disbarred

Lawyers for Lawyers, alongside the undersigned international lawyers’ rights and human rights organisations, strongly condemns the Tyumen Regional Bar Council’s decision to disbar Russian human rights lawyer Aleksey Ladin in retaliation for his human rights work. We call on the Russian authorities to revoke this decision, cease harassment against him and guarantee that all lawyers […]

Turkey: international legal community condemns Turkey’s arrest of ÇHD-lawyers Naim Eminoğlu and Doğa İncesu

In a joint statement, the undersigned bar associations, law societies, and lawyers’ rights organizations – representing tens of thousands of lawyers from around the globe – condemn in the strongest possible terms the detention of Progressive Lawyers Association (“ÇHD”) lawyers Naim Eminoğlu and Doğa İncesu, and demand their immediate release and exoneration by the authorities […]

Uzbekistan: International human rights organizations call on President Mirziyoyev to veto “undesirable” foreigners law

The undersigned international human rights organisations express profound alarm at the recent approval of a new law by Oliy Majilis, the lower chamber of Uzbekistan’s Parliament, concerning the legal status of foreign citizens and stateless individuals. These amendments represent a flagrant violation of international standards on freedom of expression and pose a serious risk of […]

Statement on Lawyers’ Day in Turkey

Today, 5 April 2024, on the occasion of Lawyers’ Day in Turkey, Lawyers for Lawyers once again strongly condemns the ongoing crackdown against lawyers in Turkey. The past twelve months were continuously marked by incidents of harassment and interference with lawyers’ work. Only two days ago, on 2 April 2024, 13 lawyers were arrested who […]