Arrest of Hazza bin Ali Al-Marri
It has been reported that lawyer Hazza bin Ali Al-Marri from Qatar has been arrested on 10 August 2021, after he emerged as a prominent figure in leading the protests organized by the Al-Murra tribe against a recently issued law regulating the Shura Council elections. The recently issued law withholds particular groups of Qatar society […]
Joint statement on the repression against Belarusian lawyers and the disbarment of Dmitriy Laevski
Together with more than 50 lawyers’ organizations, bar associations, civil society organisations and individual lawyers, Lawyers for Lawyers co-signed a joint statement on the mounting repression against Belarusian lawyers and the disbarment of Dmitriy Laevski. Since peaceful protests in Belarus erupted in 2020, following the presidential election condemned by the international community, the law in […]
Statement on the “Day of profession of lawyers of the Republic of Azerbaijan”
On this day – 30 July 2021 – Azerbaijan celebrates the Day of profession of lawyers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, a day during which lawyers are placed in the limelight. Lawyers for Lawyers uses this day to reflect on and assess the current situation for human rights lawyers in Azerbaijan. Current situation in Azerbaijan […]
Report: Lawyers Under Threat – Increasing Suppression of the Legal Profession in Belarus
Lawyers for Lawyers, the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights (ABA CHR), and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) have launched the joint report “Lawyers Under Threat: Increasing Suppression of the Legal Profession in Belarus.” The report analyzes 24 cases of retaliatory acts against lawyers who represent defendants in politically sensitive cases […]
Mahienour El-Massry released from prison
Lawyers for Lawyers welcomes the news that Mahienour El-Massry, a prominent human rights lawyer from Egypt, has been released from prison. On 22 September 2019, Mahienour el-Massry was arrested in front the State Security Prosecution office in Cairo, where she was following up on the investigations into a lawyer who was detained as part of […]
Concerns about access to the legal profession and increasing disbarments of lawyers in Turkey
In a joint statement, Lawyers for Lawyers, AIJA – International Association of Young Lawyers, the Institute for the Rule of Law of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA-IROL), the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, The Law Society of England and Wales, and The Netherlands Helsinki Committee express concern about […]
Joint UPR submission Zimbabwe
On 15 July 2021, Lawyers for Lawyers together with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) submitted a report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Zimbabwe. The UPR of Zimbabwe will take place in January 2022. In the report, Lawyers for Lawyers and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights emphasize that Zimbabwe is currently not fulfilling […]
End harassment of Michał Romanowski
Lawyers for Lawyers, the Amsterdam Bar Association and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) call for an end to the harassment of Polish lawyer Michal Romanowski, in relation to his legitimate professional activities. Michał Romanowski is a Polish attorney and professor of company law at the University of Warsaw representing Polish and European judges Paweł […]
6-year anniversary of the 709-Crackdown
Today, July 9, 2021 marks the sixth anniversary of what has come to known as the ‘709 Crackdown’: the nationwide crackdown on Chinese lawyers and human rights activists on the 9th of July 2015. During the summer of 2015, the Chinese government began a large-scale operation in which it arrested, summoned or briefly detained an […]
Targeting of Algerian lawyers constitutes new escalation in the unrelenting criminalisation of fundamental freedoms
The undersigned organizations are concerned about the attacks against lawyers from the Collective for the Defence of Hirak Detainees, as part of the Algerian authorities’ accelerated crackdown on the peaceful Hirak movement. The organisations are further alarmed by the recent summary sanctioning of judges, the calling into question of the immunity of lawyers, and the […]
Joint statement on the sixth anniversary of the ‘709 Crackdown’
Today, 9 July 2021, we, the undersigned organizations, take the opportunity to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the crackdown on Chinese lawyers and human rights defenders which occurred in the People’s Republic of China on 9 July 2015. On that date, an estimated 300 lawyers and human rights defenders were arrested, summoned or briefly detained […]
Joint oral statement during id with SR on human rights in Belarus
On 5 July, Lawyers for Lawyers and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada delivered an oral statement during the interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus. The dialogue took place during the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The statement reads as follows: Mme. President, Lawyers for Lawyers and […]
Release the four lawyers convicted at the “UAE 94” trial
On the eight anniversary of the mass “UAE 94” trial that imprisoned dozens of government critics and reform activists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Lawyers for Lawyers and the International Center for Justice and Human Rights (ICJHR) express concern about the continued detention of the lawyers Dr. Mohammed al-Roken, Salem al-Shehhi, Dr. Mohammed al-Mansoori, […]
Abdulmajid Rizoev sentenced
On 14 June, 2021 the District Court of Dushanbe sentenced human rights lawyer Abdulmajid Rizoev to 5 years and 6 months’ imprisonment for “public calls for performance of an extremist activity using the mass media and Internet” under the Tajik Criminal Code. This was reported by Front Line Defenders. We had already raised our concern […]
Side event: Protection of the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
Side-event at the UN 47th Session of the Human Rights Council, Report Launch: Access to Justice as an Integral Element of the Protection of the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Friday, July 2, 2021, 2:00pm – 3:30 pm CEST, Virtual Event via Zoom The side event (click here the flyer) aims to bring together […]
Side event: Increasing Suppression of the Legal Profession in Belarus
Side-event at the UN 47th Session of the Human Rights Council, Lawyers Under Threat: Increasing Suppression of the Legal Profession in Belarus Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 3:00pm-4:00pm CEST, Virtual Event Via Zoom This side-event (click here for flyer) will address apparent government-led attempts to undermine the legal profession inBelarus in the aftermath of Belarus’s 2020 […]
