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18 January 2024

Joint Statement on the continued harassment of Russian lawyer Aleksey Ladin

Russian Federation

Lawyers for Lawyers, the International Observatory for Lawyers, The Law Society of England and Wales, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & Human Rights, the Union of International Lawyers’ Institute for The Rule of Law, the International Bar Association’s

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11 January 2024

Upcoming Hearing for Human Rights Lawyer Claudia González Orellana on January 15, 2024

Guatemala

Claudia González Orellana, human rights lawyer from Guatemala and recipient of the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2023, faces a pivotal hearing on January 15, 2024. Ms. González was detained on August 28, 2023, due to her work as a former

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30 December 2023

Tortured and unlawfully imprisoned: Lawyers for Lawyers demands justice for Maksim Znak

Belarus

Lawyers for Lawyers joins the campaign to demand an end to the torture of Maksim Znak, a Belarusian lawyer who was arbitrarily detained in 2020. He was ultimately sentenced to 10 years in prison for carrying out his professional activities

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20 December 2023

Continued Arbitrary Detention of Dr. Mohammad Al-Roken: A Call to Release Unjustly Detained Lawyers amid COP28 in the UAE

United Arab Emirates

As COP28 comes to an end on December 13th in the UAE, at Expo City Dubai, Lawyers for Lawyers reflects on the situation of prominent academic, constitutional law teacher and human rights lawyer Dr.Mohammal Al-Roken. Despite completing his sentence in

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20 December 2023

Three Defence Lawyers of Opposition Leader Aleksei Navalny have been Arrested and included in the List of Extremists

Russian Federation

Lawyers for Lawyers is deeply concerned about the arbitrary arrest, detention and designation as extremists and terrorists of Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin, and Alexey Liptser, defence lawyers of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. [1] The Federal Financial Monitoring Service of

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9 December 2023

10 Years since the disappearance of Razan Zaitouneh

Syria

Today, December 9, 2023, marks ten years since the disappearance of lawyer Razan Zaitouneh. Together with her husband and two colleagues, Razan Zaitouneh disappeared on December 9, 2013 in Douma after a group of armed men stormed the office of

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21 November 2023

Lawyer Claudia González has been granted conditional release after spending 81 days in custody.

Guatemala

  After 81 days in detention, Guatemalan lawyer Claudia Gonzáles Orellana was released on house arrest on November 16th. Ms. González received the prestigious Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2023 for her work as a prominent human rights lawyer in Guatemala

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17 November 2023

Nasrin Sotoudeh released on bail after being arrested at funeral of Armita Garavand

Iran

Prominent human rights lawyer and women’s right activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on Sunday 29 October 2023 in Tehran while attending the funeral of 16-year-old Armita Garavand, who passed away a day earlier after nearly a month in coma. After

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11 November 2023

Li Yuhan received a 6.5-Year verdict amid health struggles.

China

On October 25, 2023, the Heping District Court in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, pronounced human rights lawyer Li Yuhan guilty of charges including “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and “fraud.” She was subsequently sentenced to 6.5 years in prison. Affectionately referred

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1 November 2023

Joint letter: Urgent request for intervention in favour of Mrs Nasrin Sotoudeh

Iran

The undersigned organizations urge you to take concrete and urgent action in the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh, prominent and well-known lawyer and human rights defender . Download the PDF On Sunday, 29 October, the media broke the news that she

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20 October 2023

Statement on the arrest of Pakistani lawyer Imaan Mazari

Pakistan

Lawyers for Lawyers is deeply concerned about the situation of human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari (full name Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir) from Pakistan. Our organization has strong reasons to believe that the arrests of Imaan Mazari are directly linked to her

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9 October 2023

Iraq: Four years since Ali Jasseb Hattab Al-Heliji has forcibly disappeared

Iraq

Today, Monday 9 October, marks four years since the disappearance of lawyer Ali Jasseb Hattab-Al-Heliji. On 8 October 2019, armed men suspected of belonging to the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) abducted Ali Jaseb Hattab al-Heliji, a lawyer representing arrested protesters,

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