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23 November 2012

Turkey L4L monitors another hearing in ‘Lawyers trial’

On 6,7 and 8 November 2012, the trial against 46 lawyers who are suspected of having ties with the Union of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) continued in Silivri, Turkey. On November 22, 2011, a broad campaign of arrests was launched

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20 November 2012

Vietnam Joint letter for Le Cong Dinh

On 16 November 2012, L4L, together with Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LWRC) and The Law Society of England and Wales (The Society), sent a letter to the Vietnamese authorities and to the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges

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14 November 2012

Iran Fourth week of hunger strike of Nasrin Sotoudeh

On 17 October 2012, Iranian human rights defender and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh began a hunger strike to protest against the harassment by judicial authorities towards her family. Recently, Sotoudeh’s 12-year-old daughter was summoned by authorities and informed that she was banned

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7 November 2012

Haiti Joint letter for Mario Joseph, Newton St-Juste and André Michel

On 26 October 2012, L4L, together with Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LWRC), sent a letter to the Haitian authorities urging them to immediately, independently and thoroughly investigate the threats and acts of intimidation towards Mario Joseph, Newton St-Juste and André Michel, to ensure that

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4 November 2012

Iran Nasrin Sotoudeh awarded Sakhorov price

This year’s Sakhorov Price was awarded to two Iranian activists, including human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. Nasrin Sotoudeh defended many of the human rights activists who were arrested after the presidential elections in June 2009. She also defended Shirin Ebadi, the human

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19 October 2012

Iran Statement Nasrin Sotoudeh read out during MEA ceremony

On 2 October 2012 the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) was presented in Geneva. The goal of the MEA is to extend recognition and protective publicity to those who are currently involved in front line work for

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19 October 2012

Colombia Lawyer David Teleki asks for help in establishing Colombian Bar Association

Colombian lawyer David Teleki visited the Netherlands on 10, 11 and 12 October 2012. Teleki works in Colombia as a criminal lawyer. Among others he stood by Jesse Quintero, one of the defendants in the Colmenares-process. Teleki received many threats via

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17 October 2012

Turkey L4L monitors trial session Filiz Kalayci

On 11 October 2012 another hearing took place in Ankara in the trial against Filiz Kalayci. L4L was present to monitor the hearing. Filiz Kalayci worked mostly on human rights issues. Throughout the 13 years she worked as a lawyer in Turkey, Kalayci

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10 October 2012

L4L NGO meeting with UN High Commissioner on Human Rights

On 2 October 2012, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, visited the Netherlands. She attended the opening of the new Human Rights Institute, and afterwards she discussed the current status of human rights in the Netherlands with

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5 October 2012

Iran Abdolfattah Soltani awarded with IBA Human Rights Award

On the annual conference of the International Bar Association (IBA), the IBA Human Rights Award 2012 was awarded to Abdolfattah Soltani. Soltani is the co-founder of the Defender of Human Rights Centre(DHRC) and acted on behalf of, among others, journalist

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30 September 2012

Honduras Antonio Trejo Cabrera killed

During the night of 22 September 2012 Antonio Trejo Cabrera was murdered. He was attending a wedding that day. When he went outside to answer a phone call, six shots were fired at him. Antonio Trejo was a lawyer who

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26 September 2012

Colombia Caravana 2012: Lawyers for lawyers visits threatened lawyers

Like in 2010, Lawyers for Lawyers participated also this year in the Caravana Internacional de Juristas (Caravana). From the 26th of August 2012 until the 1st of September 2012, Jos Boertjens and Alice Krispijn visited Colombia together with a group consisting of

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