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20 May 2013

Turkey Hearing Ümit Kocasakal adjourned to 12 October

The first hearing in the trial of İstanbul Bar Association head Ümit Kocasakal and nine other lawyers began at a Silivri court in İstanbul on 17 May. The trial was adjourned until 12 October due to the great number of

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17 May 2013

Syria Burhan al Sakkal dies in prison

L4L would like to ask your attention for the fate of Syrian lawyer Burhan al Sakkal. He died recently in prison, where he was held since October 2012 after his house was invaded by security service agents. Reportedly he was tortured

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8 May 2013

Mexico Alba Cruz receives new threats

On 30 april 2013, Alba Cruz has received new threats. In a text message, she was referred to as ‘mami’. The senders wrote to let her know that they were not ready with her yet. It happened on the day that Peace

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15 April 2013

Sri Lanka Letter for Lakshan Dias

On 26 February 2013, human rights lawyer Lakshan Dias from Sri Lanka received a number of anonymous threatening phone calls. The day before the phonecalls he was already followed by a white van. On this incident, Dias lodged a formal complaint

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4 April 2013

Malaysia L4L submits UPR report

In March 2013, L4L together with the Law Society of England and Wales filed a submission in the context of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Malaysia before the UN Human Rights Council. Lawyers in Malaysia are often the subject of threats and improper interference. They receive anonymous death threats in the

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29 March 2013

Turkey 22 lawyers 500 days in pre-trial detention

Last week, 22 lawyers of the 46 that were arrested in November 2011 in connection to the ‘KCK-case’, were in custody for 500 days. To mark these 500 days of pre-trial detention and draw attention to the next hearing in

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27 March 2013

UAE Letter for Mohamed Al-Roken and collegeagues

On 22 March 2013, L4L sent a letter to the United Arab Emirates authorities on behalf of human rights lawyer Mohamed Al-Roken and his colleagues. On 4 March 2013, 94 human rights activists from the UAE went on trial, including

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27 March 2013

Colombia Six recent cases of lawyers being killed

Different sources have informed L4L on the recent murders of as many as six lawyers in Colombia. Eduardo Antonio Almario Martinez and Daniel Alejandro Almario Calderon were murdered on the 24th of January 2013. Amaury Manuel Saez Coronado was found

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25 March 2013

Zimbabwe Beatrice Mtetwa released on bail

On 25 March 2013, the High Court of Zimbabwe has granted Beatrice Mtetwa bail during a bail appeal hearing held in Harare. On Sunday 17 March 2013, Zimbabwean police arrested Mtetwa, on allegations of ‘obstructing or defeating the course of

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20 March 2013

Zimbabwe Joint letter for arrested human rights lawyer

On Sunday 17 March 2013, Zimbabwean police arrested prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, on allegations of ‘obstructing or defeating the course of justice’. Mtetwa was arrested while attempting to provide legal assistance to Thabani Mpofu, Director of Research and Development

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16 March 2013

Vietnam Petition sent to WGAD on behalf of Le Quoc Quan

On 13 March, L4L has submitted, together with a large coalition of NGO’s, requests for urgent action to three United Nations Special Rapporteurs and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, calling for the immediate release of Vietnamese human rights lawyer and blogger Le Quoc

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15 March 2013

Tunisia Radhia Nasraoui awarded with the Dutch Geuzenpenning

On 13 March 2013, Radhia Nasraoui has been awarded the Dutch Geuzenpenning, from Stichting Geuzenverzet 1940 – 1945, for her many years of courageous struggle against torture and for an independent judicial system in Tunisia. Nasraoui, now 58 years old,

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