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28 November 2013

Turkey Ramazan Demir is facing prosecution

Ramazan Demir, one of the guest speakers on the L4L-Award seminar in May 2013, has been charged with “insulting or (…) offending the dignity of a public authority in the performance of his duties”, pursuant to Section 125 of the Criminal Code which provides

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13 November 2013

Iran Abdolfattah Soltani ends hungerstrike

L4L received information that Abdolfattah Soltani ended his hunger strike. He went on hunger strike on 2 November 2013 to protest against the lack of proper medical care for himself and other prisoners of conscious jailed in Tehran’s Evin prison. Abdolfattah Soltani is

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6 November 2013

Kazakhstan Zinaida Mukhurtova released from psychiatric confinement but still at risk

On 1 November 2013, lawyer Zinaida Mukhortova was released from Astana Medical Centre for Psychological Health. She had forcibly been detained in psychiatric confinement since 9 August 2013. Unfortunately L4L has received information that during the latest appeal hearing, psychiatric tests reaffirmed

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6 November 2013

Saudi Arabia Lawyer sentenced for ‘offending judiciary’

On 30 October 2013, a court sentenced human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair to three months in prison, for offending the Saudi Arabian judiciary. These charges are believed to be related to his signing a petition critisizing in 2011 condemning the

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5 November 2013

Russia International conference on human rights in EU and Russia

On 28 and 29 October 2013, an international conference on ‘Human rights in the European Union and in Russia’ was held in St. Petersburg. Eighty academics, jurists, lawyers, representatives of NGOs and students discussed current human rights issues in the

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5 November 2013

Sudan Adam Sharief released from prison

Adam Sharief, a lawyer from Sudan, was released on 30 October 2013 after being held in custody for more than one month without charges. He safely returned to his family and colleagues.  On 26 September 2013 the National Intelligence and

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28 October 2013

Haiti Lawyer arbitrarily held in police custody

On 22 October 2013, human rights lawyer André Michel was arbitrarily held for one night in police custody. While on his way back home, André Michel’s car was stopped by police officers, who attempted to carry out a search of

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20 October 2013

Syria One year since enforced disappearance human rights lawyer

  More than one year ago, Syrian lawyer Khalil Ma’touq was arrested on his way to work. Since then, no further information could be obtained regarding his situation and whereabouts. Khalil Ma’touq is the executive director of the Syrian Center

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20 October 2013

Iran Court of Appeal upholds prison sentence Mohammad Seifzadeh

Late September 2013, the Court of Appeal upheld the sentence imposed on Mohammad Seifzadeh by the Islamic Revolution Court on 20 February 2013. This Court sentenced him to six years imprisonment, on charges of “collusion to take action against the national

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2 October 2013

Vietnam Le Quoc Quan sentenced to 30 months in jail

  On 2 October 2013, Vietnamese lawyer Le Quoc Quan was sentenced to 30 months in jail for tax evasion. Le Quoc Quan is a well-known Vietnamese lawyer and human rights defender. He has been harassed constantly since 2007 by

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1 October 2013

Kazakhstan Court upholds psychiatric confinement of human rights lawyer

On 27 September 2013, Karaganda’s regional court of Karaganda confirmed the decision of the Balkhash Court to approve the forced psychiatric confinement of lawyer Zinaida Mukhortova, thereby dismissing her appeal. The decision was taken in her absence, even though Zinaida Mukhortova’s

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23 September 2013

Turkey L4L monitors hearing in mass-trial against lawyers

On 17 September 2013, the trial against 46 lawyers who are suspected of having ties with the Union of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) continued in Silivri, Turkey. Lawyers for Lawyers has been monitoring this case since the start of it,

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