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19 March 2014

Syria Call for release human rights defender Mazen Darwish

A joint letter on 17 March 2014, signed by over 60 international organizations, calls for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his colleagues Hani Al-Zatini and Hussein Ghareer. The United Nations Security Council demanded

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3 March 2014

Ukraine Allegations of undue interference State authorities in legal profession

Ukraine’s new government faces tremendous challenges. Two core issues to tackle are the economic turmoil and separation threats. Recent reports from two international lawyers organisations indicate undue interference with the operation of the legal profession by State officials. To guarantee

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26 February 2014

Turkey President and board of Istanbul Bar Association acquitted

In Istanbul the President, Ümit Kocasakal, and the board of the Istanbul Bar Association were acquitted on February 2014. This was announced by the Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (L4L). At the beginning of 2013, the President and the board

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25 February 2014

Brazil Lawyer faces complaint filed by former president Bar Association

Human rights lawyer Ermogenes Jacinto de Souza is facing a complaint filed by the former president of the National Bar Association, Hélio Vieira. According to our information, this charge was made in connection to the lawyer’s professional activities in defending

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25 February 2014

Turkey ECtHR: Turkey guilty of torturing lawyer

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued a verdict in the case of Gülizar Tuncer, a human rights advocate who has been subjected to police violence in 2000. Turkey was found guilty of violating the European Convention of Human

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19 February 2014

Vietnam Appeal Court upholds sentence Le Quoc Quan

On 18 February 2014, an appeals courts in Vietnam upheld the verdict against lawyer Le Quoc Quan. He was arrested on 27 December 2013 and sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment on charges of ‘tax evasion’. Members of the EU Delegation to

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17 February 2014

DRC Lawyer subjected to intimidatory acts

Didier Kalemba, a lawyer from the Democractic Republic of the Congo, has been subjected to intimidatory acts. He received a series of threathening calls, ordering him to appear at the headquarters of the Agence Nationale de Renseignements (ANR, National Intelligence

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17 February 2014

Vietnam Letter to Appeal Judge for Le Quoc Quan

L4L, together with a broad coalition of organizations, has sent a letter to the Supreme Court of Vietnam to express their support for the appeal of Mr. Le Quoc Quan against his recent conviction on charges of alleged tax evasion.

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15 February 2014

Egypt L4L speaks to Ragia Omran

On 11 January 2014, L4L met with Ms Ragia Omran, a leading member of a number of Egypt’s legal advocacy organizations and women’s rights activists. Ms Omran has set up a rapid response network, involving approximately 40 organizations and 100

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15 February 2014

Syria Lawyer victim of enforced disappearance

On 31 January 2014, lawyer Roshdy El Sheikh Rasheed was taken from his home to an unknown location by plain-clothes individuals. Because his home is in Tadmor, which is under control of government forces, it is considered very likely that state

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14 February 2014

Vietnam Le Quoc Quan on hungerstrike

Jailed Vietnamese blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan has launched a hunger strike to protest the refusal by prison authorities to provide him access to legal counsel, access to legal and religious books, and access to a priest,

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31 January 2014

Kazakhstan Disbarment of lawyers for ‘violating professional ethics’

Two lawyers from Kazakhstan were disbarred for simply doing their job.The lawfulness of one disbarment will now be reviewed by the Supreme Court. What happened?Lawyers Lyubov Agushevich and Polina Zhukova represented a defendant in criminal proceedings. During his trial,

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