In the present letter of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, LRWC expresses serious concern about reports of an assault on October 12, 2003 on a lawyer and a member of the Council of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, Ms. Beatrice Mtetwa. LRWC urges to remind all relevant authorities of Zimbabwe’s international legal obligations concerning the protection of lawyers and human rights defenders, including the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers.