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12 April 2016

Send lawyers Ramazan Demir and Ayşe Acinikli a postcard in prison!

Türkiye

After the initial arrest and release of nine lawyers in Istanbul between 16 – 19 March 2016, new arrest warrants were issued against four of them on 22 March. On April 6, lawyers Ramazan Demir and Ayşe Acinikli were re-arrested.

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11 April 2016

Thailand-blog Looking back on Thailand’s UPR pre-session

Thailand

By Karin Monster Geneva, Wednesday, March 30th. Getting up early in the morning and heading to Thailand’s “Universal Periodic Review” (UPR) pre-session with L4L’s representative, Milena Latuputty. During this session, Thailand’s current human rights situation will be reviewed in the

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7 April 2016

Lawyers Ramazan Demir and Ayşe Acinikli detained again

Türkiye

After the initial arrest and release of nine lawyers in Istanbul between 16 – 19 March 2016, new arrest warrants were issued against four of them on 22 March 2016. Two lawyers were re-arrested immediately after and were released a

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5 April 2016

Lawyers for Lawyers speaks to lawyer Oleg Khabibrakhmanov

Russian Federation

In March 2016, Lawyers for Lawyers had an interesting conversation with Russian lawyer Oleg Khabibrakhmanov. Oleg is a member of the Joint Mobile Group, and was in the Netherlands for the Movies that Matter festival. Joint Mobile Group (JMG) was

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4 April 2016

Two lawyers arrested

Indonesia

Lawyers for Lawyers and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) are concerned about the beating, arrest, criminal investigation and prosecution of lawyers Tigor Gempita Hutapea and Obed Sakti Andre Dominika. These events happened following their monitoring of Police violence committed during

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29 March 2016

Lawyer Intigam Aliyev released

Azerbaijan

On 28 March 2016, the Supreme Court of Baku has decided to release Azerbaijan’s leading human rights lawyer, Intigam Aliyev. The court converted his seven-and-a-half year prison sentence to a five-year suspended term. Intigam Aliyev was convicted in April 2015

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27 March 2016

Thailand-blog L4L is preparing itself for UPR pre-session

Thailand

By Karin Monster Next week – from March 30 to April 2, 2016 – the pre-sessions in preparation for the 25th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) will take place in Geneva. During these pre-sessions, which will be organized by UPR Info,

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23 March 2016

Decision to release lawyers quashed

Türkiye

Lawyers for Lawyers was concerned to learn that on 22 March 2016, the 2nd Peace Judgeship quashed the decision of the Istanbul 1st Criminal Peace Judgeship to release 9 Turkish lawyers. New arrest warrants were ordered for four of the

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21 March 2016

Arrested lawyers released

Türkiye

Good news: All the nine lawyers who were arrested in Istanbul earlier this week, were released from pre-trial detention on Saturday 19 March 2016 by the decision of the interrogation judge. The lawyers will however still be prosecuted. Lawyers for

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16 March 2016

Police raid on- and arrest of 9 lawyers

Türkiye

In the early morning of 16 March, police raided the houses of 9 lawyers in Istanbul, Turkey. After the search, lawyers Ramazan Demir, İrfan Arasan, Ayşe Acinikli, Hüseyin Boğatekin, Şefik Çelik, Adem Çalışçı, Ayşe Başar, Tamer Doğan and Mustafa Ruzgar were

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14 March 2016

12 years since disappearance Somchai Neelapaijit

Thailand

Twelve years after Thai human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaijipit went missing, there is still no prospect of justice. Somchai disappeared on 12 March 2004, one day after he had publicly accused the police of torturing his clients, who were in

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14 March 2016

Appeal Intigam Aliyev rejected

Azerbaijan

On 24 February 2016, the Azerbaijan Supreme Court rejected the appeal of human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev. Aliyev himself did not attend the hearing. This was reported by the Human Rights House Network on their website. Intigam Aliyev is currently

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