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Crimea Lawyers harassed

Russian Federation

Lawyers for Lawyers is concerned about the harassment of Emil Kurbedinov and Nikolai Polozov, both working as human rights defense lawyers in the Crimea. Both lawyers were detained in January 2017. This was reported by Human Rights Watch on their

Burundi Lawyers disbarred

On 16 January 2017, the ‘Secrétaire Général et porte parole de la Cour Suprême’ of Burundi posted a message on her Twitter account, stating lawyers Vital Nshimirimana, Armel Niyongere, Dieudonnee Bashirahishize from the Bujumbura Bar Association, and to suspend Lambert

Day of the Endangered Lawyer

China

Tuesday 24 January 2017 is the “Day of the endangered lawyer”. This year, the annual events focus on lawyers in China.  In July 2015, a unprecedented and seemingly well-coordinated detention campaign of a large number of human rights lawyers and defenders in China

Vietnam Nguyen Van Dai detained for one year – send him a postcard!

Vietnam

The Vietnamese government must immediately and unconditionally release human rights lawyer and blogger Nguyen Van Dai, Lawyers for Lawyers and other organizations said today. Nguyen Van Dai has been arbitrarily detained for exactly one year, without access to legal representation

Sentencing of two lawyers in UAE

Türkiye

On 12 December, Lawyers for Lawyers called on the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to immediately release Vahit Aykut Ergil and Abdulmetin Uraçin, both lawyers from Turkey. We have reason to believe that their conviction might be connected

Travel ban and asset freeze against human rights lawyers

Egypt

In a letter, Lawyers for Lawyers called upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately lift the travel ban against Azza Soliman and Malek Adly and to immediately and unconditionally lift the assets freeze imposed against Azza Soliman her law firm. Lawyers

Razan Zaitouneh missing for three years

Syria

Since human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh, her husband and two colleagues were abducted on 9 December 2013, no one has heard of them. Today, exactly three years after their disappearance, fifty-six organizations, Lawyers for Lawyers amongst them, called for their immediate

Human Rights Day: Join Lawyers for Lawyers’s campaigns!

On 10 December – Human Rights Day- people from all over the world will write letters. For those who are in prison, who are tortured or who are threatened. Among them are many lawyers that Lawyers for Lawyers is campaigning for.

Petition to WGAD on Nguyen Van Dai

Vietnam

Together with Media Legal Defence Initiative, PEN International, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada and Viet Tan, Lawyers for Lawyers filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) urging it to intervene in the case of lawyer Nguyen Van

Report Caravana mission

Colombia

On 18 November 2016, the report of the fifth Caravana de Juristas mission to Colombia was published. Lawyers for Lawyers joined the mission for the fifth time. In August 2016, Wout Albers and Marit Balkema visited Colombia with the Caravana.

Disappearance of lawyer Jiang Tianyong

China

Lawyers for Lawyers has grave concerns about lawyer Jiang Tianyong from China. He disappeared on the evening of 21 November 2016 after visiting the wife of detained human rights lawyer, Xie Yang. Jiang Tianyong is a human rights lawyer who

Greece Lawyer subject of harassment

Electra Koutra, human rights lawyer from Greece, has experienced harassment allegedly in connection to her representation of several Syrian refugees aged between 13 to 16 years of age. This was reported by the IAPL Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers on their website.