Turkey: Provisional release of human rights lawyer Mr. Levent Pişkin
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders requests you to write the authorities in Turkey, urging them to comply with the Principle of the United Nations Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, in particular Principles 16, 18, and 20 on Guarantees for the functioning of lawyers, and Principle 23 on Freedom of […]
Turkey: Provisional release of human rights lawyer Mr. Levent Pişkin
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders requests you to write the authorities in Turkey, urging them to comply with the Principle of the United Nations Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, in particular Principles 16, 18, and 20 on Guarantees for the functioning of lawyers, and Principle 23 on Freedom of […]
Human Rights organisations adress Chinese president with open letter re arrest of Chinese human rights lawyers
In an open letter addressed to president Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, 24 different human rights organisations condemn the arrest of a large number of human rights lawyers in China, thereby referring to the UN’s basic principles of the role of lawyers.
Human Rights organisations adress Chinese president with open letter re arrest of Chinese human rights lawyers
In an open letter addressed to president Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, 24 different human rights organisations condemn the arrest of a large number of human rights lawyers in China, thereby referring to the UN’s basic principles of the role of lawyers.